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Monday, August 4, 2025

Former principal McClinton paid in $79K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $1.51M in retirement

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Former principal Jewel McClinton, who retired in June 2018, saved $78,661 toward a pension over 13 years working for public schools, Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, McClinton would collect as much as $1.51 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes McClinton received $31,650 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, McClinton will have already received $97,828 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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