Over 30 years of retirement, O'Connell would collect as much as $4.85 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes North Cook News.
The projection assumes O'Connell received $101,914 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.
After 3 years of retirement, O'Connell will have already received $315,005 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.
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