About

Samantha Chatman is an Emmy Award winning journalist and Weekend Morning Anchor for ABC 7 Chicago. She is also an Investigative Reporter and a member of ABC 7's prestigious I-Team.

Samantha, who grew up in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood on the South Side, joined Chicago's #1 news station in September 2019. She feels honored to work at the station she grew up watching. 

Samantha has won Emmy awards for her work in Chicago and Dallas, TX. Before moving to Dallas/Fort Worth, she was the Business Reporter at WDRB-TV in Louisville, Kentucky. She started her career at WEEK/WHOI-TV in Peoria, Illinois, where she worked as a Multimedia Journalist, Fill-in Anchor and Weather Anchor.

In 2022, Samantha published her first children's book, "Mia Gets Sick, But Doesn't Quit," a story that was developed during the pandemic to help inspire and remind kids to never give up. 

She attended Kenwood Academy's Academic Center for middle school, Lincoln Park High School and received her Bachelor of Science degree in Broadcast Journalism from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a minor in African-American studies.