The long-running One Chicago series returns on Oct. 1 for season 14, and since its debut in 2012, Chicago Fire has kept the heat up. The

procedural drama has featured an ensemble of dedicated firefighters, paramedics and rescue personnel who work to save the city’s residents from terrifying life-or-death situations.

 

 

Station romances may not be recommended, but they’re a major occurrence at Firehouse 51. From Matthew Casey (Jesse Spencer) and Gabby Dawson (Monica Raymund) — and later, Casey and Sylvie Brett (Kara Killmer) — to Kelly Severide (Taylor Kinney) and Stella Kidd (Miranda Rae Mayo), Chicago Fire has had no shortage of love stories. Thankfully, the cast’s real-life relationships are far less dramatic.

Spencer, who starred in the series until 2021, has been married to Dr. Kali Woodruff Carr since 2020, and Kinney wed model Ashley Cruger in 2024.

 

 

Taylor Kinney and Ashley Cruger attend Operation Smile’s 10th Annual Park City Ski Challenge on April 02, 2022 in Park City, Utah.Alex Goodlett/Getty

After hard-launching their relationship on Instagram in 2022, the couple have kept their romance out of the public eye.

Still, Cruger has supported her husband’s on-screen career and even made a cameo during an episode of Chicago Fire in season 11.

 

 

“First episode of Chicago Fire aired last night and I got to sneak on it @taylorkiney111,” she wrote in a since-deleted post on X, per Hello!.

After two years of dating, Kinney and Cruger tied the knot on April 30, 2024, in an intimate ceremony in Chicago.

David Eigenberg and Chrysti Eigenberg attend HBO Max’s premiere of “And Just Like That” on December 8, 2021 in New York City.Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty

 

David Eigenberg, who portrays Christopher Herrmann on Chicago Fire, has been married to his wife, Chrysti Eigenberg, since 2002.

The Sex and the City actor told CosmoTV in 2013 that they met at a gala event in Virginia and got married “real quick.”

“I knew she was the girl,” David told the outlet, noting that they went through a rough patch during the second year of their marriage.

He continued, “When the dust settles and if you could still forgive each other and communicate and start to understand something about the other person … that’s the goodness.”

The pair have two children together, a son and a daughter, who helped their mom surprise David with a sentimental gift for his 60th birthday in 2024.

9, 2015 in Chicago, Illinois.Daniel Boczarski/Getty
Joe Minoso, who plays Joe Cruz on the show, has been married to his wife, Caitlin Murphy Miles, since 2016.

Miles, who worked as a makeup artist on Chicago Fire, opened a wellness boutique, yoga and paramedical tattoo studio in East Dundee, Ill., in 2022.

In a 2019 post celebrating his third wedding anniversary with Miles, Minoso poked fun at his character’s romantic shortcomings.

“Well Chloe may have dumped me, but in real life (3 years ago today) I got to marry the most phenomenal, insightful, artistic, gorgeous women on the planet!” he captioned a photo from their nuptials. “@murphyminoso thank you for the countless wonderful moments of our lives.”

Christian Stolte, who portrays Randall “Mouch” McHolland on Chicago Fire, has been married to his wife, Kim Whitehead-Stolte, since 2001.

The couple have two daughters, who made cameos on their dad’s show.

Their older child, Corinne Anderson, played his on-screen daughter in a 2015 episode of Chicago Fire and acted in a 2019 crossover episode with Chicago Med. She also worked behind the scenes with Stolte when he appeared on Chicago P.D.

Christian told Parade in 2021 that his other daughter, Greta Stolte, was the first person rescued in Chicago Fire’s pilot episode.

“She’s now a freshman at Arizona State,” the actor told the outlet. “But she was small enough that Jesse handed her off to David after they crawled out of a residential fire.”