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Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Former state school employee Blankenhorn paid in $85K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $1.79M in retirement

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Former state school employee Kathryn Blankenhorn, who retired in May 2016, saved $85,198 toward a pension over 24 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Blankenhorn would collect as much as $1.79 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Sangamon Sun.

The projection assumes Blankenhorn received $37,587 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Blankenhorn will have already received $116,178 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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