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Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Former state school employee Coghlan paid in $90K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $1.89M in retirement

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Former state school employee Patricia Coghlan, who retired in June 2018, saved $90,023 toward a pension over 25 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Coghlan would collect as much as $1.89 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes South Cook News.

The projection assumes Coghlan received $39,694 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Coghlan will have already received $122,691 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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