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Will County Gazette

Tuesday, November 11, 2025

Former state school employee Fafara paid in $111K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.53M in retirement

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Former state school employee Mary Fafara, who retired in June 2017, saved $111,250 toward a pension over 28 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Fafara would collect as much as $2.53 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Will County Gazette.

The projection assumes Fafara received $53,173 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Fafara will have already received $164,352 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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