NBC’s One Chicago franchise is full of shocking twists and daring rescues. As Chicago Med, Chicago Fire and Chicago P.D. approach their season finales, fans are clamoring to know when their favorite TV heroes will be back.
Keep an eye on this page, because Watch With Us has all the latest info about the One Chicago shows you love. Here’s everything you need to know.
Will All the ‘Chicago’ Shows Return in Fall 2025?
Yes! NBC has announced that all three series in the franchise will return for new seasons. Chicago Fire has been renewed for a 14th season, Chicago P.D. has been renewed for a 13th season and Chicago Med has been renewed for an 11th season.
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The only spinoff of Chicago Fire that hasn’t been a runaway hit was Chicago Justice, which aired in 2017 and was canceled after just one season.
Who Stars in the ‘Chicago’ Shows?
Chicago Fire, the first series in the franchise, currently stars the following actors in its main cast.
Taylor Kinney as Lieutenant Kelly Severide
David Eigenberg as Christopher Herrmann
Christian Stolte as Randall “Mouch” McHolland
Joe Miñoso as Joe Cruz
Miranda Rae Mayo as Stella Kidd
Hanako Greensmith as Violet Mikami
Jake Lockett as Sam Carver
Daniel Kyri as Darren Ritter
Jocelyn Hudon as Lyla Novak
Dermot Mulroney as Dom Pascal
Note: Kyri and Lockett will not be returning as regulars in season 14.
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Chicago P.D. stars the following actors in the main cast:
Jason Beghe as Hank Voight
Patrick John Flueger as Adam Ruzek
Marina Squerciati as Kim Burgess
LaRoyce Hawkins as Kevin Atwater
Amy Morton as Trudy Platt
Benjamin Levy Aguilar as Dante Torres
Chicago Med stars these actors in the main cast:
S. Epatha Merkerson as Sharon Goodwin
Oliver Platt as Dr. Daniel Charles
Marlyne Barrett as Maggie Lockwood
Steven Weber as Dr. Dean Archer
Jessy Schram as Dr. Hannah Asher
Luke Mitchell as Dr. Mitch Ripley
Sarah Ramos as Dr. Caitlin Lenox
Darren Barnet as Dr. John Frost
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What’s Been Happening on ‘Chicago Fire’, ‘Chicago P.D.’ and ‘Chicago Med’?
In the season finale of Chicago Fire, Chief Dom Pascal became the prime suspect in a suspicious car fire involving Robert Franklin (Matthew Collins). Franklin is connected to Pascal’s late wife, Monica, who died in a fire two months prior. The incident raises questions about Pascal’s past and intentions. Meanwhile, Severide and Stella Kidd faced emotional turmoil as the expectant mother of the child they hoped to adopt changed her mind, leaving them devastated .
Meanwhile, on Chicago P.D., the Intelligence Unit was left in chaos after Deputy Chief Reid successfully dismantled their corrupt operation. Voight is under internal investigation, left reeling from the failure to stop Reid and the murder of Otero. Burgess has been suspended, while Torres has been arrested, both targeted as part of Reid’s strategic takedown. Atwater and Ruzek are still standing but shaken, unsure of how to proceed without the unit’s full backing.
The staff of Chicago Med are facing some serious potential shakeups, as hospital administrator Sharon Goodwin has been tasked with implementing difficult personnel cuts. Dr. Hannah Asher is unexpectedly pregnant, while Dr. Daniel Charles learned that his daughter, Anna, dropped out of Stanford and has returned to Chicago, prompting him to confront familial issues.
When will ‘Chicago Fire,’ ‘Chicago P.D.’ and ‘Chicago Med’ Return?
No release dates have been announced for any of the shows yet, but NBC has confirmed they will all return in the fall of 2025. Stay tuned for more updates!
You can watch all the One Chicago universe shows on Peacock: Chicago Fire, Chicago PD and Chicago Med.
‘One Chicago Podcast’ Launching to Bring Fans Behind the Scenes of NBC Franchise (EXCLUSIVE)
For the first time, fans of “Chicago Med,” “Chicago Fire” and “Chicago P.D.” will be able to get behind the scenes access to the entire franchise with the official “One Chicago Podcast.”
On Friday, during the “One Chicago” panel at ATX TV Festival, Steven Weber of “Chicago Med” and Marina Squerciati of “Chicago P.D.” announced the news of the podcast. The host will be announced at a later date. The podcast will produced by Wolf Entertaiment and USG Audio.
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During the episodes, fans will get “a 360-degree view of the One Chicago universe and the creative engine that powers it,” per a press release. The podcast will include long-form interviews with cast members, writers, producers and crew from all three series. Each week, the host will share exclusive stories and dissect the making of the shows — from the stunts to the storylines. Additonally, fans will have the opportunity to get involved in recurring segments.
New episodes of the podcast will launch on Thursdays during the upcoming TV season.
In the fall, the lineup will return with Season 11 of “Chicago Med,” Season 14 of “Chicago Fire” and Season 13 of “Chicago P.D.” All three shows, produced by Universal TV, reached nearly 46 million total viewers last season to-date across NBC and streaming on Peacock.
Dick Wolf and Peter Jankowski are executive producers across all three procedurals. “Chicago Med” executive producers are Allen MacDonald and Stephen Hootstein. Andrea Newman, Reza Tabrizi and Matt Whitney are executive producers on “Chicago Fire,” while “Chicago P.D.” executive producers include Gwen Sigan, Chad Saxton, Gavin Harris and Jason Beghe.
Netflix announces premiere dates, plural, for the final season of ‘Stranger Things’
The official release dates for Season 5 of Netflix’s beloved supernatural series “Stranger Things” have been announced, and yes – there’s more than one.
The show’s final season is set to hit the streamer in three chunks, with “Volume 1” premiering on November 26, “Volume 2” on Christmas Day, and the grand finale on New Year’s Eve. The long-awaited debut dates were revealed on Saturday during Netflix’s “Tudum 2025: The Live Event,” where Lady Gaga performed as the platform revealed various other details about content coming in the rest of 2025 and into 2026. (Gaga will appear in Season 2 of the streamer’s hit series “Wednesday.”)
For “Stranger Things,” core cast members Noah Schnapp, Caleb McLaughlin and Finn Wolfhard came out onstage at the Netflix event to reminisce about memories of making the show over the near decade since it premiered back in 2016. Their costars Millie Bobby Brown and Gaten Matarazzo each joined over video for the occasion as well.
A release date for Season 5 is a welcome announcement, as viewers have been waiting since way back in 2022 – when Season 4 aired and viewers were introduced to the terrifying Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower) – for the show to return for its final installment. The delay between seasons was, in part, due to the actors’ and writers’ strikes of 2023 that ran into the show’s production window.
“Stranger Things” follows a group of teenagers and their families as they face off against an unnamed evil lurking in what’s known as the “Upside Down,” a mirror dimension existing underneath their small Indiana town.
The dark, retro-style series has been one of Netflix’s most-viewed series and has won 12 Primetime Emmys thus far.
Along with the above-mentioned actors, Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Joe Keery, Natalia Dyer, Matthew Modine and Charlie Heaton star in the series. Additional cast members, who all became breakout stars, include Sadie Sink, Priah Ferguson, Joseph Quinn and Maya Hawke.
Netflix announced in 2023 that “Terminator” star Linda Hamilton is set to be a guest star on Season 5.
The final season began filming in 2024, according to a post on the official Netflix X page, and wrapped in December.
In January, Ross and Matt Duffer, the creators of the series, shared a behind-the-scenes glimpse at the final season, revealing at the time that they’d spent an entire year filming it and had captured over 650 hours of footage.
“It’s like eight blockbuster movies. It’s pretty insane,” Ross Duffer said at the time.
Matt Duffer added that it “was super intense and emotional to film – for us and for our actors. We’ve been making this show together for almost ten years. There was a lot of crying. There was SO much crying.”
CNN’s Dan Heching contributed to this report.
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“Stranger Things” Inches Closer to Its Final Farewell as Season 5 Premiere Date Is Revealed
NEED TO KNOW
- The premiere date for Stranger Things season 5 was revealed at Netflix’s Tudum 2025 live event on Saturday, May 31
- Season 5 marks the sci-fi hit’s final installment, and it will drop in three parts: Volume 1 on Nov. 26, Volume 2 on Christmas and the series finale on New Year’s Eve
- Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Finn Wolfhard, Millie Bobby Brown, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Natalia Dyer, Charlie Heaton, Noah Schnapp, Sadie Sink, Joe Keery and Maya Hawke are among the returning cast members
Mark your calendars, because we officially have a premiere date for Stranger Things season 5.
Netflix announced at its Tudum 2025 live event on Saturday, May 31, that the show’s final season will air in three parts: Volume 1 on Nov. 26, Volume 2 on Christmas and the series finale on New Year’s Eve.
At the live event, Stranger Things stars Finn Wolfhard, Caleb McLaughlin and Noah Schnapp shared their favorite memories from the show and hyped up the final season, before a teaser clip was unveiled, showing all the drama that’s to come.
Their co-stars Gaten Matarazzo and Millie Bobby Brown also made an appearance via pre-recorded video messages, expressing their love for the fans who have supported them through the years.
The streamer announced in January 2024 that production had begun on Stranger Things season 5, sharing a black-and-white photo of the cast. Co-creator Ross Duffer — one-half of the Duffer Brothers alongside Matt Duffer — then confirmed in December of that year that production had wrapped.
Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Wolfhard, Brown, Matarazzo, McLaughlin, Natalia Dyer, Charlie Heaton, Schnapp, Sadie Sink, Joe Keery and Maya Hawke are all set to return for season 5, as well as Brett Gelman, Priah Ferguson, Cara Buono, Amybeth McNulty and Jamie Campbell Bower.
In June 2023, Netflix announced that Terminator star Linda Hamilton was joining the cast. Other newcomers include Nell Fisher, Jake Connelly and Alex Breaux.
A teaser shared in November 2024 revealed the titles for all eight episodes of season 5, ending with the series finale titled “The Rightside Up.” This brings the show full circle, as the season 1 finale was titled “The Upside Down.”
“In the fall of 1987, one last adventure begins,” read on-screen text in the teaser, revealing a time jump for the show after the previous season was set in the spring of 1986.
Hawke told PEOPLE in June 2024 that filming the final season had been “heartbreaking” for her.
“I mean, it’s the end of a really long journey. Longer for some of my castmates, even, than me. It’s really sentimental,” she said. “We shoot for a long time, so it’s reinvigorating [to bring] the joy and finding it everyday and making it new. It’s a really fun thing to do.”
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While Stranger Things may be coming to a close on Netflix, the story lives on in Stranger Things: The First Shadow. The play debuted on London’s West End in 2023 and transferred to Broadway earlier this year.
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Seasons 1-4 of Stranger Things are now streaming on Netflix, and season 5 volume 1 premieres on Nov. 26.
