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Annie Ilonzeh, who has played paramedic Emily Foster on Chicago Fire for two seasons, won't be back for Season 9.

The last couple episodes of Season 8 even set up an exit for her character. She performed a fasciotomy to save a man showing signs of compartment syndrome in his arm during a protest at the house in "Light Things Up." After, Med's Will (Nick Gehlfuss) asked which trauma surgeon's work it was, and when she told him it was hers, he commented that she'd missed her "calling."

In the finale, she revealed that she'd decided to go back to med school and had applied, which caused a bit of conflict with Brett (Kara Killmer). She interviewed at Northwestern, but her application status was still pending at the end of  "51's" Original Bell." With news of Ilonzeh's departure, it's likely that she'll get in.

The season finale of Chicago Fire by the way  on Wednesday drew the largest same-day audience in the show's history, helping NBC sweep all three hours of primetime in total viewers. ABC's Who Wants to Be a Millionaire declined significantly in its second week