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Former state school employee Herlin paid in $139K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.89M in retirement

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Former state school employee Christine Herlin, who retired in May 2018, saved $139,137 toward a pension over 35 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Herlin would collect as much as $2.89 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes South Cook News.

The projection assumes Herlin received $60,653 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Herlin will have already received $187,473 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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