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Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Former state school employee Brown paid in $152K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.11M in retirement

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Former state school employee Lealor Brown, who retired in May 2016, saved $151,960 toward a pension over 21 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Brown would collect as much as $2.11 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes South Cook News.

The projection assumes Brown received $44,403 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 4 years of retirement, Brown will have already received $185,765 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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