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Tuesday, August 5, 2025

Former state university employee Miller Ishmael paid in $64K to pension fund, could collect $1.09M in retirement

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Former state university employee Mary Miller Ishmael, who retired in March 2018, saved $63,525 toward a pension over 26 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Miller Ishmael would collect as much as $1.09 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Miller Ishmael received $22,838 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Miller Ishmael will have already received $70,590 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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