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Former teacher Longo paid in $194K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $3.22M in retirement

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Former teacher Gary Longo, who retired in July 2018, saved $193,635 toward a pension over 47 years working for public schools, Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Longo would collect as much as $3.22 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Longo received $67,614 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Longo will have already received $208,987 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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