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Wednesday, October 29, 2025

Former state school employee Norman paid in $82K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $1.68M in retirement

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Former state school employee Dorothy Norman, who retired in May 2017, saved $81,971 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, Norman would collect as much as $1.68 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Peoria Standard.

The projection assumes Norman received $35,246 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Norman will have already received $108,941 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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