‘Chicago P.D.’ cast, producers pitch in to help show’s lowest-paid crew members during strikes

Ang Gardner (from left), Jeff Sweeney, Lucille Edlund and Stuart Elmore are among the “Chicago P.D.” production assistants helped with money from the shut-down show’s cast and crew. (Pat Nabong/Sun-Times)

A group of production assistants who worked on the set of “Chicago P.D.” — before the writers’ and actors’ strikes put the show on ice earlier this year — received a huge moral and financial boost earlier this month.

Each received $1,500 from a pool of money that was collected from cast and crew members of the long-running NBC show.