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Former special education worker Evans paid in $61K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $1.13M in retirement

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Former special education worker John Evans, who retired in November 2018, saved $60,687 toward a pension over 13 years working for public schools, Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Evans would collect as much as $1.13 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Evans received $23,798 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Evans will have already received $73,557 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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