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Wednesday, November 19, 2025

Former state school employee Petergal paid in $107K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.19M in retirement

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Former state school employee Lisa Petergal, who retired in June 2018, saved $107,045 toward a pension over 24 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Petergal would collect as much as $2.19 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes North Cook News.

The projection assumes Petergal received $46,000 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Petergal will have already received $142,181 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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