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Lake County Gazette

Tuesday, November 11, 2025

Former state school employee Kolze paid in $186K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $3.82M in retirement

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Former state school employee Maralyn Kolze, who retired in June 2016, saved $185,631 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, Kolze would collect as much as $3.82 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Lake County Gazette.

The projection assumes Kolze received $80,257 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Kolze will have already received $248,067 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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