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Tuesday, November 11, 2025

Former state school employee Rozum paid in $83K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $1.54M in retirement

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Former state school employee Kathryn Rozum, who retired in June 2017, saved $83,413 toward a pension over 23 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Rozum would collect as much as $1.54 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes South Cook News.

The projection assumes Rozum received $32,412 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Rozum will have already received $100,182 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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