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Tuesday, October 28, 2025

Former state school employee Gibbons paid in $89K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $1.59M in retirement

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Former state school employee Nancy Gibbons, who retired in February 2017, saved $89,430 toward a pension over 24 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Gibbons would collect as much as $1.59 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Peoria Standard.

The projection assumes Gibbons received $33,476 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Gibbons will have already received $103,470 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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