Soon after, Mac retired from tattooing and I bought his shares and became the sole owner of Chicago Tattoo. In 1978, I expanded into the next store. Ever since the studio opened, clean quality tattoo work has been our goal. Sterilization was something that I learned right from the beginning when very few tattooers were concerned with it. We have always sterilized all our instruments and always ran a clean studio.
Some studios claim to be the cleanest studios around.
We are as clean as any of them. It is one thing to be a clean studio, but it's equally important to get a quality tattoo. What good is getting a tattoo in a clean environment when the artwork is second rate. We have always done extremely artistic and clean tattooing. Currently at Chicago Tattoo there are six Tattoo artists who work at various times of the day.