An Englewood barber with ties to “Chicago Fire” is hosting a watch party Wednesday night to celebrate the NBC show’s Season 12 finale “Never Say Goodbye.” The watch party, open to the public, starts at 7 p.m.
Wednesday at Powell’s Barbershop, 1122 W. 63rd St., with the episode airing at 8 p.
m., said Sunni Powell, the shop’s owner. He’s worked as a barber on the set for the past 12 years.
For the past four years, he’s worked five days a week on the show, though his schedule for future seasons is uncertain. “It’s one of the most exciting episodes that ‘Chicago Fire’ has ever had,” Powell said about the upcoming season finale. “It was one of the greatest seasons that ‘Chicago Fire’ has ever had.
We used a lot of amazing locations in Chicago, it’s a lot more action, a lot more stunts. It’s a really exciting show.” Powell, a native of the South Side neighborhood, said he wanted to do something to give back to Englewood.
In the past, he had engaged in more community activism, but he had been less active in recent years because of the coronavirus pandemic and the Writers Guild of America strike that halted production of the television series. Sunni Powell, owner of Powell’s Barbershop in the Englewood neighborhood, sits inside his new shop in 2023. Pat Nabong/Sun-Times Powell reopened his barbershop last year in the , a collective of Black-owned businesses.
The reopening had marked a new chapter for Powell’s business after a , killing one .
