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Galesburg Reporter

Monday, August 4, 2025

Former state school employee Allison paid in $104K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $1.55M in retirement

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Former state school employee Christine Allison, who retired in May 2016, saved $103,685 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, Allison would collect as much as $1.55 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Galesburg Reporter.

The projection assumes Allison received $32,621 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 4 years of retirement, Allison will have already received $136,475 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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