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Monday, August 4, 2025

Former special education worker Horn paid in $177K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $3.41M in retirement

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Former special education worker Thomas Horn, who retired in July 2018, saved $177,234 toward a pension over 35 years working for public schools, Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Horn would collect as much as $3.41 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Horn received $71,679 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Horn will have already received $221,552 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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