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Wednesday, July 9, 2025

Former state university employee Lenox paid in $1K to pension fund, could collect $23K in retirement

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Former state university employee Jack Lenox, who retired in May 2017, saved $1,310 toward a pension over 12 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Lenox would collect as much as $22,881, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Lenox received $480 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Lenox will have already received $1,483 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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