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Lake County Gazette

Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Former state school employee Rothstein paid in $122K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $1.98M in retirement

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Former state school employee Lori Rothstein, who retired in May 2018, saved $121,806 toward a pension over 22 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Rothstein would collect as much as $1.98 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Lake County Gazette.

The projection assumes Rothstein received $41,683 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Rothstein will have already received $128,837 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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