The Chicago Code is an American crime drama television series created by Shawn Ryan that aired on Fox in the United States.

[1][2][3] The series follows officers of the Chicago Police Department as they fight crime on the streets and try to expose political corruption within the city.

Veteran Chicago Police Detective Jarek Wysocki leads the special unit fighting against the corruption.

Wysocki was assigned to head the special unit by his boss, the newly appointed first-female Chicago Police Superintendent and his one-time partner, Teresa Colvin.

To do a show that was very specific to Chicago and to sort of embrace the ethos and the way of life of those people and bring that to screen, I thought was something really exciting and jazzed me to come to work every day.

"[8] In 2023, he gave further insight about the show's cancellation: "One of the reasons I left 20th Television was I'd made The Chicago Code and they had to pitch this to Kevin Reilly at Fox.

[23] James Queally of The Star-Ledger said that "Ryan's well-crafted characters are what truly carry the pilot, in what equates to an effective, but not groundbreaking, origin story.

Club gave the pilot a B+, saying "the show, as a whole, makes great use of Chicago as a character, which in itself gives it a look and feel unlike other urban TV cop thrillers.

"[26] David Bianculli of NPR wrote that "[i]t borrows a little from The Wire, HBO's landmark series about entrenched, corrupted city institutions, and a little from EZ Streets, the vintage Paul Haggis cop series that gave equal weight to its good guys and its bad guys.

"[27] Brian Ford Sullivan of The Futon Critic named the pilot episode the 13th best episode of 2011, naming it his favorite pilot of the year, and calling it "everything a television series should be: a toy box of well-rounded characters put in a distinct landscape with stories and attitudes that can be anything from funny to terrifying to heart-breaking, never knowing which is coming next".