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Thursday, September 18, 2025

Former state university employee Willison paid in $70K to pension fund, could collect $1.13M in retirement

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Former state university employee Keith Willison, who retired in December 2016, saved $70,157 toward a pension over 15 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Willison would collect as much as $1.13 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes East Central Reporter.

The projection assumes Willison received $23,669 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Willison will have already received $73,158 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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