Business & Tech
Tattoo Shop Ready to Make North Shore Home
Owners forced to change business plan after rejected by Palatine Village Board.
Maximum Tattoo is scheduled to open its doors on Milwaukee Avenue near Deerfield in May.
Owners Beth and Phil Cisco have been in the business for more then 33 years. The couple’s initial attempt to plant its first store in failed after the village board unanimously rejected the proposal in February.
"Palatine is a very particular town. It's a hometown,” commented District 6 Council Member Aaron Del Mar at the February meeting. “I think some people share my concern. … In our home town there is not a tattoo shop.”
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So the couple decided to take its business elsewhere.
“It was a humiliating and costly defeat,” Beth Cisco said. “But we weren't just going to roll over and give up on our dreams.”
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In an email to Patch the couple claimed 25 percent of people between the ages of 18-50 have tattoos and a lot of them live in the suburbs. They said they want to offer their services to locals and plan to start doing so near Deerfield.
Maximum Tattoo is scheduled to open its doors in the River Run Shopping Center at 20594 N. Milwaukee Ave.
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