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Wednesday, August 6, 2025

Former substitute teacher McGinness paid in $5K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $72K in retirement

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Former substitute teacher Timothy McGinness, who retired in December 2017, saved $5,049 toward a pension over 3 years working for public schools, Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, McGinness would collect as much as $72,072, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes McGinness received $1,514 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 4 years of retirement, McGinness will have already received $6,333 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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