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Former state school employee Horne paid in $96K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $1.57M in retirement

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Former state school employee Douglas Horne, who retired in June 2017, saved $96,015 toward a pension over 26 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Horne would collect as much as $1.57 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes South Cook News.

The projection assumes Horne received $33,018 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Horne will have already received $102,056 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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