The bad news: All three One Chicago shows left off with major cliffhangers, involving characters’ fates in question as well as jobs on the

line, potential romances, and much more. The good news is that all Chicago Med, Chicago Fire, and Chicago P.D. are all back relatively early in the new year.

 

 

 

The One Chicago lineup returns on Wednesday, January 7, 2026, with new episodes, and each show has quite a few burning questions to answer. Will any of them lose a main character?

All three ended with one in danger, whether from their own making or unknowingly having walked into a situation. There has also been a mystery set up about one of the doctors, a blackmail situation for one of the members of Intelligence, and a question regarding when we’ll see a main cast member again. Plus, there is, of course, the question of a crossover between the three shows.

 

 

Below, we take a look at the 11 burning questions we have over this hiatus. Let us know yours in the comments section.

Lenox (Sarah Ramos) has gotten very involved in the safety of her patient, Faye (Olivia Nikkanen), whose husband Devin (Jack Falahee) abuses her, to the point that she went to check on her at the end of the fall finale. It’s a good thing she did since Faye was badly beaten in the basement. But when Lenox went to call for help, Devin knocked her out.

 

 

It’s the classic set-up for at least part of the midseason premiere to track what Devin’s doing to Lenox and Faye in the basement while the rest of the doctors are busy at the hospital (especially with a blackout), until hopefully help arrives. But what will happen to Lenox in that time? And how will that affect her moving forward as she continues to deal with her prion disease diagnosis?

 

 

Something’s been going on with Charles (Oliver Platt), with the doctor admitting to problems sleeping. He also admitted to Theo (Manish Dayal) that he’s looking into whatever’s going on with him but it was also affecting his judgement.

But what exactly is it that Charles is going through? And what will it mean for him continuing to work at the hospital and his interactions with the others going forward?

It certainly seemed like there could be something between Archer (Steven Weber) and Kingston (Merrin Dungey) as they talked during surgery near the end of the fall finale about their personal lives (yes, both are single) and music choices.

With Archer having a baby with Asher (Jessy Schram) after a night together last season, it does seem very likely that this could be the beginning of a new love triangle — especially if Asher begins to question if she and Archer are just friends coparenting or could be more.

Severide (Taylor Kinney) put on his fire cop hat and worked an arson case with Van Meter (Tim Hopper) in the fall finale: Someone deliberately set a fire in a school to target the principal. A lot of people didn’t like the guy, and that left them with quite the suspect list.

What they didn’t know was that while they were talking to him in his apartment at the end of the episode, someone was setting a fire in the stairwell below. Severide is almost 100% safe, but Van Meter is a question mark. He’s recurred since Season 6, and his death would certainly hurt Severide