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Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Former teacher Zuberek Nikol paid in $124K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.1M in retirement

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Former teacher Lidia Zuberek Nikol, who retired in August 2016, saved $123,642 toward a pension over 22 years working for public schools, Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Zuberek Nikol would collect as much as $2.1 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Zuberek Nikol received $44,216 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Zuberek Nikol will have already received $136,666 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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