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Former state university employee Quillen paid in $73K to pension fund, could collect $2.25M in retirement

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Former state university employee Edmond Quillen, who retired in January 2019, saved $72,680 toward a pension over 11 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Quillen would collect as much as $2.25 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Quillen received $47,328 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 2 years of retirement, Quillen will have already received $96,076 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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