Cook County Board of Review Commissioner Samantha Steele is facing scrutiny over a nexus of ethics violations involving her lucrative, undisclosed network of Indiana government consulting contracts. An investigative report by the Cook County Office of the Independent Inspector General (OIIG) exposed the ethical lapses of Samantha Steele, there identified as "BOR Official A." Subsequent reporting from the Chicago Tribune explicitly identified Commissioner Samantha Steele as th

Samantha Steele's next court date in her DUI arrest is Monday, January 12, 2026 Cook County Board of Review Commissioner Samantha Steele is scheduled for a pretrial motion hearing in her criminal DUI case on Monday, January 12 , 2026, at 9:00 a . m. in Courtroom 410 at the Richard J. Daley Center in Chicago. According to the court docket, the case is set for a Motion to Suppress filed by the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office. Filings indicate that the State may ask the ju

Cook County Board of Review Commissioner Steele’s LinkedIn profile and official Cook County Board of Review biography list a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Kent Institute of Art & Design, a UK-based institution that closed in 2005. However, FOIA-released emails, show that Steele reported only a high school diploma to the International Association of Assessing Officers (IAAO) when verifying her credentials.

In a recent episode of "The Medrano Exchange" podcast, Cook County Board of Review Commissioner Samantha Steele sparked outraged her use of the term "colored people." The interview, conducted by Gus Medrano, a Senior Mortgage Consultant at Meta Mortgage and podcast host, has ignited a firestorm of criticism.