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Sunday, September 28, 2025

Former teacher Westlove paid in $101K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.38M in retirement

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Former teacher Michael Westlove, who retired in November 2017, saved $100,901 toward a pension over 20 years working for public schools, Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Westlove would collect as much as $2.38 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Westlove received $49,954 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 2 years of retirement, Westlove will have already received $101,407 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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