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Joe Mahr

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Chicago Tribune investigative reporter. Ohio native. Co-recipient of Pulitzer + finalist. To know it's the real me, follow link below & confirm @ address.

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‘That’s taxpayer money’

Illinois ignores rules and red flags as ‘servant leader’ runs up $100M state tab, then closes 2 hospitals

View Front PageChicago Tribune • AUG 30, 2026

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‘That’s taxpayer money’

Illinois ignores rules and red flags as ‘servant leader’ runs up $100M state tab, then closes 2 hospitals

With:Lisa Schencker
CT
Chicago Tribune•AUG 30, 2026
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Courts at center of removal efforts

Trump administration turns system it oversees into 'deportation factory'

With:Caroline Kubzansky
CT
Chicago Tribune•JUL 26, 2026
Chicago Tribune front page

City paid baffling legal invoices

A 69-hour workday? Chicago didn't blink at impossible shifts

With:Jason Meisner
CT
Chicago Tribune•APR 19, 2026
Investigative report exposing municipal financial oversight failures regarding exorbitant and mathematically impossible billings by private law firms.

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Paperboy tracks bylines on the front pages of major US and UK broadsheets. This page shows every front-page story attributed to Joe Mahr in our archive, based on bylines extracted from front-page images by AI. It covers only front-page stories — not the full output of this journalist. Data begins April 2026.