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Wednesday, October 8, 2025

Former state school employee Dilks paid in $202K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $4.78M in retirement

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Former state school employee Debra Dilks, who retired in June 2017, saved $201,888 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, Dilks would collect as much as $4.78 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Kankakee Times.

The projection assumes Dilks received $100,471 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 2 years of retirement, Dilks will have already received $203,956 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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