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Wednesday, August 6, 2025

Former state university employee Shaw paid in $17K to pension fund, could collect $254K in retirement

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Former state university employee Dennis Shaw, who retired in August 2017, saved $17,277 toward a pension over 1 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Shaw would collect as much as $253,635, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Shaw received $5,331 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 4 years of retirement, Shaw will have already received $22,304 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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