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Galesburg Reporter

Friday, October 3, 2025

Former state school employee Hull paid in $83K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $1.56M in retirement

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Former state school employee Karen Hull, who retired in May 2018, saved $83,040 toward a pension over 21 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Hull would collect as much as $1.56 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Galesburg Reporter.

The projection assumes Hull received $32,858 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Hull will have already received $101,561 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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