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Monday, August 4, 2025

Former substitute teacher Duplessis paid in $151K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $3.49M in retirement

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Former substitute teacher Denise Duplessis, who retired in August 2018, saved $151,339 toward a pension over 27 years working for public schools, Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Duplessis would collect as much as $3.49 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Duplessis received $73,378 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Duplessis will have already received $226,803 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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