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Friday, August 1, 2025

Former state university employee Sergent Grimm paid in $140K to pension fund, could collect $3.14M in retirement

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Former state university employee Tammy Sergent Grimm, who retired in May 2016, saved $140,103 toward a pension over 30 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Sergent Grimm would collect as much as $3.14 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Sergent Grimm received $66,036 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Sergent Grimm will have already received $204,111 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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