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Sunday, June 1, 2025

Former special education worker Shinnick paid in $86K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $1.6M in retirement

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Former special education worker Charles Shinnick, who retired in June 2016, saved $86,404 toward a pension over 18 years working for public schools, Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Shinnick would collect as much as $1.6 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Shinnick received $33,731 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Shinnick will have already received $104,259 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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