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The Chicago Code
- Metascore75
- 2011-2011
- 1 season
- Fox Network
- Action & Adventure, Suspense, Drama
- TV-14
Series follows the vendetta between an honest (female) police superintendent, Teresa Colvin, and a corrupt Alderman named Gibbons, as she tries to prove Gibbons has ties to some criminals. And at the center is Cole's point man Jarek Wysocki, probably the most honest cop in the Chicago PD, who tries to clean up the city as well.
- Metascore75
- 2011-2011
- 1 season
- Fox Network
- Action & Adventure, Suspense, Drama
- TV-14
Series follows the vendetta between an honest (female) police superintendent, Teresa Colvin, and a corrupt Alderman named Gibbons, as she tries to prove Gibbons has ties to some criminals. And at the center is Cole's point man Jarek Wysocki, probably the most honest cop in the Chicago PD, who tries to clean up the city as well.
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