![]() ![]() Walker plans to take time off from the radio station after she gives birth, but said she will film “Black Ink Crew” at her Bucktown home with the baby. Walker, who works as a weekend DJ at WGCI, said lights inside the arena will turn pink or blue with the news. The couple is set to reveal the baby’s gender Friday at WGCI-FM 107.5’s Big Jam event at the United Center. One of the episodes from this month showed Charmaine Walker and Bey telling their mothers they are expecting a baby, due March 12. Glenda Walker’s final scenes have already started to air. I don’t have any regrets,” Charmaine Walker said. I was a little nervous about it, just how family members would take it because unless you are the reality star, you might not understand, like why are the cameras at her funeral? But it was such a beautiful situation that I’m really glad that I did it. “I did want to bring the cameras because she was such a big part of ‘Black Ink.’ I just wanted to close her story out in a beautiful way. Cameras were rolling for Season 6 when Glenda Walker died, and they followed Charmaine Walker to Louisiana for her mother’s funeral. Twenty days later, her mother, Glenda Walker, died of a heart attack at the age of 62 in the family’s hometown of Slidell, Louisiana.Ĭharmaine Walker tears up when she talks about her mom. They got pregnant in June, and she opened 2nd City Ink on Oct. Pretty sure I was in sweatpants and UGGs,” Walker said). In March, she wed Nick Bey at City Hall in Chicago away from TV cameras (“It wasn’t romantic at all. My mother passing away really stopped me from doing anything, like put a huge pause on life, so I wasn’t able to get the website and everything out when I wanted to, but I am working on that currently.” Said Walker: “Our website will be dropping soon. A source close to “Black Ink Crew” production said the registration paperwork has been filed and blamed the delay on last-minute lease issues. The department sends cease-and-desist letters to businesses operating without registration. The state requires businesses that provide body art services such as tattooing and piercing to register with IDPH and get inspected. More importantly, a spokeswoman for the Illinois Department of Public Health said there’s no record of the shop’s registration with the department, as required by state law. The appointment-only shop has more than 69,000 Instagram followers, but there’s no website. There were no signs for 2nd City Ink on the outside of the building when the Tribune visited. ![]() Dayton St., a building that also houses a medical office and a private school. The shop and accompanying production space are located on the bottom floor of 1440 N. ![]() It’s just for TV because we don’t know where the location is.’ But we’re in a building where there is a children’s hospital (office), so we want to just make sure we keep the general public out and only service clients,” Walker told the Tribune during a visit to the shop last week. “Some people are saying, ‘Oh, 2nd City Ink, it’s fake. 4, questions have been raised about the legitimacy of the North Side tattoo shop. Former 9Mag worker Charmaine Walker said she opened 2nd City Ink in October because she “was tired of asking for a seat at the table, and I decided to build my own.”īut while 2nd City Ink has been heavily featured on “Black Ink Crew: Chicago” since Season 6 premiered Dec. The new season of the VH1 TV show recently introduced a new tattoo shop with its own drama. For four years, “Black Ink Crew: Chicago” has followed the personal and professional lives of the employees of the 9Mag tattoo shop in Pilsen. ![]()
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