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Will County Gazette

Wednesday, June 25, 2025

Former state school employee Trudelle paid in $8K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $89K in retirement

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Former state school employee Michael Trudelle, who retired in May 2016, saved $7,614 toward a pension over 5 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Trudelle would collect as much as $89,295, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Will County Gazette.

The projection assumes Trudelle received $1,876 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 4 years of retirement, Trudelle will have already received $7,848 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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