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Thursday, October 9, 2025

Former state school employee Beedle paid in $90K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $1.81M in retirement

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Former state school employee Mary Beedle, who retired in May 2016, saved $90,213 toward a pension over 23 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Beedle would collect as much as $1.81 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Kankakee Times.

The projection assumes Beedle received $38,148 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Beedle will have already received $117,911 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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