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Saturday, October 4, 2025

Former state university employee Dunmars paid in $12K to pension fund, could collect $208K in retirement

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Former state university employee Christine Dunmars, who retired in July 2017, saved $12,265 toward a pension over 8 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Dunmars would collect as much as $207,895, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Dunmars received $4,369 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Dunmars will have already received $13,504 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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