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Tuesday, August 5, 2025

Former state school employee Kerrigan paid in $113K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.01M in retirement

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Former state school employee Robert Kerrigan, who retired in June 2016, saved $113,353 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, Kerrigan would collect as much as $2.01 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes McHenry Times.

The projection assumes Kerrigan received $42,213 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Kerrigan will have already received $130,475 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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