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East Central Reporter

Thursday, October 2, 2025

Former state school employee Hoecherl paid in $75K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $1.78M in retirement

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Former state school employee Teresa Hoecherl, who retired in May 2017, saved $75,359 toward a pension over 35 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Hoecherl would collect as much as $1.78 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes East Central Reporter.

The projection assumes Hoecherl received $37,369 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 2 years of retirement, Hoecherl will have already received $75,859 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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