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Monday, April 28, 2025

Former state school employee Sturges paid in $115K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.27M in retirement

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Former state school employee Cheryl Sturges, who retired in May 2017, saved $115,013 toward a pension over 25 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Sturges would collect as much as $2.27 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Rockford Sun.

The projection assumes Sturges received $47,634 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Sturges will have already received $147,232 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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