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Sunday, August 3, 2025

Former special education worker Young Harrell paid in $136K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.9M in retirement

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Former special education worker Linda Young Harrell, who retired in February 2019, saved $135,786 toward a pension over 25 years working for public schools, Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Young Harrell would collect as much as $2.9 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Young Harrell received $60,938 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Young Harrell will have already received $188,353 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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