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Tuesday, October 28, 2025

Former state school employee Petrie paid in $132K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.81M in retirement

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Former state school employee Dawn Petrie, who retired in May 2017, saved $132,187 toward a pension over 35 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Petrie would collect as much as $2.81 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Peoria Standard.

The projection assumes Petrie received $59,085 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Petrie will have already received $182,627 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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