History Series / ChicagoPD

* GutturalGrowler: Voight[[note]]Jason Beghe's vocal chords were permanently damaged by doctors constantly removing and reinserting a ventilation tube while he was comatose following a car accident[[/note]].
** Lindsay also has a very husky voice.

[[caption-width-right:350:Don't *** With My City.]]

The series follows Sergeant Hank Voight (Creator/JasonBeghe), a cop who may or may not be dirty, as he takes command of the Chicago Police Department's Intelligence Section. Voight and his unit brutally take on the city's most dangerous criminals using borderline, and outright, illegal tactics to keep Chicago safe.

** Despite this, Voight takes steps to avoid the other members of Intelligence from doing this. Upton spends Season 7 using increasingly underhanded or outright illegal tactics. Voight is clearly disturbed, tries to reign her in, and ultimately has her temporarily transferred to the FBI to stop it. When she points out its no different from his actions, he explodes "I don't want you to be like me!"

** Nadia was a teenage drug addict working as an escort. Subverted, since she wasn't promoted to being a full cop, at least not while she was [[PosthumousPromotion alive]] anyway.

** Upton was raised in an abusive home and often witnessed her father domestically abuse her mother.
** Rojas grew up in the foster system and aged out, something that the series has made clear usually just leads to becoming another statistic. It was thanks to her boyfriend taking the full rap for their carjacking forays and a compassionate caseworker helping her out that she was able to become an officer.

** Timeskip to Season 6, and by the end, all but Burgess and Ruzek are owners of products from Fiat-Chrysler/Stellantis. Voight gets a Dodge Durango SRT, Atwater a Charger Hellcat (although he's had it since Season 4), Halstead's rig is now a RAM 1500, and even Upton gets a Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8. Ruzek catches up in Season 8 with a Jeep Wrangler Rubicon.

* DisposableSexWorker: Averted. The cops go to great lengths to help anyone who needs it, and Lindsay even opens her home to Nadia after the girl comes out of rehab. That said, sex workers-turned-CIs still end up joining the RedShirtArmy fairly frequently on this show and Nadia herself meets a rather poignant [[DroppedABridgeOnHim demise]] courtesy of Greg Yates.

** One episode has Voight putting a suspect into the trunk of a car. In ''Film/ThelmaAndLouise'', Beghe played a highway patrolman who gets forced into the trunk of his cruiser by the titular duo.

* CrapsackWorld: The show isn't shy about showing how violent Chicago can be and occasionally touches on corruption and navel gazing within the CPD. In fact, the city's rate of gun crimes is so high, the Chicago Police Department is one of the few cities where all officers (uniformed and plainclothes) wear vests outside of their clothing while on duty[[note]]other departments mandate wearing vests underneath shirts to avoid tempting criminals from taking potshots at officers[[/note]]. Universe-wise, it counts as one big MoodWhiplash from the LighterAndSofter ''Series/ChicagoFire'' that precedes it.

* ArtisticLicense: In real life:
** Voight would probably still be incarcerated for his abuse of power in ''Series/ChicagoFire'';
** and even if he were let out, he likely wouldn't be given back his cop duties or at the very least, he'd be placed on indefinite desk duty a la [[Series/TheShield Vic Mackey]];

''Chicago PD'' is an NBC PoliceProcedural, SpinOff of ''Series/ChicagoFire'', and second show in Creator/DickWolf's ''Series/OneChicago'' Franchise, that debuted in January 2014.

* PintSizedPowerHouse: None of the ladies on the Intelligence Unit top 5'6" in height. ''All'' of them have taken down their fair share of perps, many being half again to 2x's their size.
** Voight, while being one of the shorter guys on the unit, is its leader and has no problem invoking AuthorityEqualsAsskicking.

* PoorCommunicationKills: Throughout the first episode, Voight continually clashes with Violent Crimes, with their Lieutenant, Bruce Belden, annoyed that Voight doesn't share information - to which Voight retorts that neither does Violent Crimes. Towards the end of the episode, Intelligence rolls up to an apartment where they believe a drug dealer is going to be killed... and Violent Crimes rolls up, telling Voight they're following up on the car belonging to some cartel hitmen, which was spotted at the apartment. [[spoiler:It results in one Intelligence detective being shot in the neck, and pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital. [[LaserGuidedKarma Later, Belden makes a deal with Pulpo that enables the latter to get his hands on a run and ends with Belden]] and several other cops dead.]]

* NiceHat: Olinsky is rarely seen without his flat cap.

* NoodleIncident: When Ruzek's father walks into the precinct, Platt exclaims, "Disco Bob!" It's never explained why she calls him that.

** [[spoiler:Justin, Voight's son in the season 3 finale]].
** [[spoiler:Alvin Olinsky in the season 5 finale]].