David Eigenberg grew up in the Naperville suburb of Chicago (per the Chicago Tribune), so he has a lifelong understanding of the Windy City mindset ... even though, according to The Day, he was actually born in New York.
Eigenberg wasn't a particularly mellow child. "I was just an angry young kid," he described his younger days. "I think I was a little bit on fire. As you come into life as a young person, it's frustrating and you don't understand it. And I think as you come into adulthood, the contradictions of people's behavior and the hypocrisy of people's behavior is hard to understand, and irony hasn't been learned yet, so you can't file it anywhere."
As such, it's not exactly a surprise that before Eigenberg fully embarked on his ongoing acting journey, he explored other avenues of life. Fans might be surprised to find out that the "Chicago Fire" star is a former marine, and has worked with the United Service Organization numerous times. In fact, his USO work introduced him to his real-life partner, who was in homeland security duty when he visited her army base. "I met her; it just hit me. That had never happened to me before. It just hit me at the core," Eigenberg later described the moment he laid eyes on her. The pair went on to marry, and have two children.
