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Former state school employee Petrillo paid in $29K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $747K in retirement

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Former state school employee Patty Petrillo, who retired in September 2018, saved $29,059 toward a pension over 15 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Petrillo would collect as much as $746,521, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes North Cook News.

The projection assumes Petrillo received $15,691 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 2 years of retirement, Petrillo will have already received $31,853 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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