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Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Former state school employee Fowler paid in $93K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.23M in retirement

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Former state school employee Connie Fowler, who retired in May 2017, saved $93,123 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, Fowler would collect as much as $2.23 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes DeKalb Times.

The projection assumes Fowler received $46,881 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 2 years of retirement, Fowler will have already received $95,168 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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