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Monday, August 4, 2025

Former teacher Kenyatta paid in $75K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $1.28M in retirement

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Former teacher Janis Kenyatta, who retired in May 2018, saved $74,725 toward a pension over 15 years working for public schools, Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Kenyatta would collect as much as $1.28 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Kenyatta received $26,911 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Kenyatta will have already received $83,179 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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