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Monday, July 14, 2025

Former state university employee Coleman paid in $17K to pension fund, could collect $165K in retirement

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Former state university employee Rebecca Coleman, who retired in August 2016, saved $16,554 toward a pension over 6 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Coleman would collect as much as $164,877, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Coleman received $3,465 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 5 years of retirement, Coleman will have already received $18,396 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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