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Monday, June 30, 2025

Former state school employee Ogren paid in $186K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $4.72M in retirement

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Former state school employee Sandra Ogren, who retired in June 2016, saved $186,023 toward a pension over 39 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Ogren would collect as much as $4.72 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Lake County Gazette.

The projection assumes Ogren received $99,268 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 2 years of retirement, Ogren will have already received $201,514 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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