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Wednesday, July 9, 2025

Former state university employee McKillip paid in $106K to pension fund, could collect $2.01M in retirement

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Former state university employee Stephen McKillip, who retired in August 2017, saved $105,742 toward a pension over 22 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, McKillip would collect as much as $2.01 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes McKillip received $42,235 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, McKillip will have already received $130,544 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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