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Tuesday, August 5, 2025

Former teacher Davis Williams paid in $56K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $817K in retirement

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Former teacher Diane Davis Williams, who retired in March 2018, saved $56,485 toward a pension over 12 years working for public schools, Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Davis Williams would collect as much as $817,336, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Davis Williams received $17,179 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 4 years of retirement, Davis Williams will have already received $71,870 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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