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Friday, June 6, 2025

Former state university employee Tillman paid in $54K to pension fund, could collect $783K in retirement

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Former state university employee Lillie Tillman, who retired in January 2019, saved $53,651 toward a pension over 20 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Tillman would collect as much as $783,281, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Tillman received $16,464 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 4 years of retirement, Tillman will have already received $68,880 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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