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East Central Reporter

Friday, October 3, 2025

Former state school employee Baldwin paid in $94K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $1.75M in retirement

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Former state school employee Lona Baldwin, who retired in June 2018, saved $94,346 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, Baldwin would collect as much as $1.75 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes East Central Reporter.

The projection assumes Baldwin received $36,825 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Baldwin will have already received $113,823 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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