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East Central Reporter

Tuesday, November 18, 2025

Former state school employee Fitzgerald paid in $87K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $1.43M in retirement

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Former state school employee Glenda Fitzgerald, who retired in May 2018, saved $87,158 toward a pension over 20 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Fitzgerald would collect as much as $1.43 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes East Central Reporter.

The projection assumes Fitzgerald received $30,089 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Fitzgerald will have already received $93,003 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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