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Lake County Gazette

Saturday, October 4, 2025

Former state school employee Mount paid in $45K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $623K in retirement

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Former state school employee Cheryl Mount, who retired in December 2017, saved $45,022 toward a pension over 10 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Mount would collect as much as $622,748, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Lake County Gazette.

The projection assumes Mount received $13,089 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 4 years of retirement, Mount will have already received $54,760 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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