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Sunday, October 5, 2025

Former state university employee Bluhm paid in $85K to pension fund, could collect $1.26M in retirement

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Former state university employee Davida Bluhm, who retired in June 2017, saved $84,928 toward a pension over 20 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Bluhm would collect as much as $1.26 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Bluhm received $26,400 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 4 years of retirement, Bluhm will have already received $110,448 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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