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Tuesday, August 5, 2025

Former state school employee Solis paid in $144K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.72M in retirement

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Former state school employee Elena Solis, who retired in May 2018, saved $143,616 toward a pension over 29 years working for public schools, Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Solis would collect as much as $2.72 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Solis received $57,208 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Solis will have already received $176,824 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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