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Sunday, June 29, 2025

Former state school employee Wallenberger paid in $177K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $4.17M in retirement

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Former state school employee Barbara Wallenberger, who retired in May 2017, saved $176,583 toward a pension over 35 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Wallenberger would collect as much as $4.17 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes McHenry Times.

The projection assumes Wallenberger received $87,575 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 2 years of retirement, Wallenberger will have already received $177,777 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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