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Monday, August 4, 2025

Former teacher Hale paid in $167K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $3.2M in retirement

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Former teacher Elizabeth Hale, who retired in July 2018, saved $166,586 toward a pension over 38 years working for public schools, Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Hale would collect as much as $3.2 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Hale received $67,218 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Hale will have already received $207,765 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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