| Black Ink Crew: Chicago | |
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| Genre | Reality | 
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| Country of origin | United States | 
| Original language | English | 
| No. of seasons | 7 | 
| No. of episodes | 110 | 
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| Executive producers | 
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| Running time | 42–46 minutes | 
| Production companies | 
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| Original release | |
| Network | VH1 | 
| Release | October 26, 2015 – October 11, 2022 | 
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Black Ink Crew: Chicago is an American reality television series that airs on VH1 and premiered on October 26, 2015. It is the Chicago-based spin-off of Black Ink Crew . It chronicles the daily operations and staff drama at an African American owned and operated tattoo shop, 9MAG, located in Chicago, Illinois. [1]
| Main cast members | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cast member | Seasons | ||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7a | 7b | ||
| Ryan Henry | Starring | ||||||||
| Kat Jackson | Starring | Guest | |||||||
| Charmaine Walker | Starring | ||||||||
| Phor Brumfield | Starring | ||||||||
| Van Johnson | Starring | Supporting | Supporting | ||||||
| Danielle Jamison | Starring | Supporting | Guest | ||||||
| Don Brumfield | Starring | ||||||||
| Lily Barrios | Supporting | Starring | Guest | ||||||
| Jess Simpson | Starring | ||||||||
| Miss Kitty | Guest | Supporting | Starring | ||||||
| Draya Penzo | Supporting | Starring | |||||||
| Prince Spencer | Supporting | Starring | |||||||
| Supporting cast members | |||||||||
| Cast member | Seasons | ||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7a | 7b | ||
| Ashley Brumfield | Supporting | ||||||||
| Rachel Leigh | Supporting | Guest | Supporting | Guest | Supporting | ||||
| Junior Diaz | Supporting | ||||||||
| Cobra Kat | Supporting | ||||||||
| Whitney Womack | Supporting | Guest | |||||||
| Ariel Perkins | Supporting | ||||||||
| Nikki Nicole | Guest | Supporting | Guest | ||||||
| Neek Bey | Supporting | Guest | Supporting | ||||||
| Jenn Johnson | Guest | Supporting | Guest | ||||||
| Bella Tatted | Supporting | ||||||||
| Reese Hilburn | Supporting | Guest | |||||||
| Brittany Slam | Supporting | ||||||||
| Damn Gina | Supporting | ||||||||
| Shine Davis | Supporting | ||||||||
| Evenita McGruder | Supporting | ||||||||
| Adriana Garibay | Guest | Supporting | |||||||
| Fly Tatted | Supporting | ||||||||
| King Plug | Supporting | ||||||||
| Zach | Supporting | ||||||||
| Nina Austin | Supporting | ||||||||
| Ceaser Emanuel | Supporting | ||||||||
| Steven Morris | Supporting | Guest | |||||||
| Miriah Mark | Supporting | ||||||||
| Shogun | Supporting | ||||||||
| Ceci | Supporting | ||||||||
| Spyder | Supporting | ||||||||
| Season | Episodes | Originally released | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First released | Last released | |||
| 1 | 10 | October 26, 2015 | December 28, 2015 | |
| 2 | 10 | October 3, 2016 | November 28, 2016 | |
| 3 | 18 | July 19, 2017 | December 6, 2017 | |
| 4 | 16 | May 30, 2018 | September 19, 2018 | |
| 5 | 20 | January 2, 2019 | August 6, 2019 | |
| 6 | 16 | December 4, 2019 | July 27, 2020 | |
| 7 | 20 | 10 | October 4, 2021 | December 6, 2021 | 
| 10 | August 9, 2022 | October 11, 2022 | ||
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Original release date | U.S. viewers (millions) | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | "We Run Chicago" | October 26, 2015 | 1.80 [2] | 
| 2 | 2 | "What You Don't Understand Is, I Do Understand" | November 2, 2015 | 1.90 [3] | 
| 3 | 3 | "Phor Play" | November 9, 2015 | 2.03 [4] | 
| 4 | 4 | "Ain't No Prop, Clown" | November 16, 2015 | 1.73 [5] | 
| 5 | 5 | "New York, New Problems" | November 23, 2015 | 1.75 [6] | 
| 6 | 6 | "You're Not God and You're Not My Daddy" | November 30, 2015 | 1.92 [7] | 
| 7 | 7 | "Kat Fight!" | December 14, 2015 | 1.71 [8] | 
| 8 | 8 | "Yacht Rocked" | December 21, 2015 | 1.65 [9] | 
| 9 | 9 | "The Don Sets in Paradise" | December 28, 2015 | 1.96 [10] | 
| 10 | 10 | "Goodbye Doesn't Mean Forever" | December 28, 2015 | 1.78 [10] | 
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Original release date | U.S. viewers (millions) | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 1 | "The Nicki Minaj of 9 Mag" | October 3, 2016 | 1.56 [11] | 
| 12 | 2 | "Prison on the Outside, Party on the Inside" | October 3, 2016 | 1.38 [11] | 
| 13 | 3 | "99.999998 Percent" | October 10, 2016 | 1.74 [12] | 
| 14 | 4 | "A New Kat-itude" | October 17, 2016 | 1.73 [13] | 
| 15 | 5 | "Broke on Bourbon Street" | October 24, 2016 | 1.66 [14] | 
| 16 | 6 | "Congratulations, You Played Yourself" | October 31, 2016 [15] | 1.38 [16] | 
| 17 | 7 | "Cobra Gets Rattled" | November 7, 2016 | 1.79 [17] | 
| 18 | 8 | "Basic People Have Threesomes" | November 14, 2016 | 1.75 [18] | 
| 19 | 9 | "Que Grande" | November 21, 2016 [15] | 1.91 [19] | 
| 20 | 10 | "Team Don" | November 28, 2016 [15] | 2.12 [20] | 
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Original release date | U.S. viewers (millions) | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 1 | "The New Barack and Michelle Obama" | July 19, 2017 | 0.88 [21] | 
| 22 | 2 | "You Need Jesus" | July 26, 2017 | 1.03 [22] | 
| 23 | 3 | "The Return of Cobra" | August 2, 2017 | 0.91 [23] | 
| 24 | 4 | "Kat's Back" | August 9, 2017 | 0.91 [24] | 
| 25 | 5 | "Work Is Work, But Can You Twerk?" | August 16, 2017 | 1.06 [25] | 
| 26 | 6 | "This One Time at Van Camp" | August 23, 2017 | 1.01 [26] | 
| 27 | 7 | "My Cousin Janelle" | August 30, 2017 | 1.07 [27] | 
| 28 | 8 | "Surprise, I'm Pregnant!" | September 6, 2017 | 1.13 [28] | 
| 29 | 9 | "I Like My Tamales Real" | September 13, 2017 | 1.07 [29] | 
| 30 | 10 | "Freeze My Fupa!" | October 9, 2017 | 1.11 [30] | 
| 31 | 11 | "Lola From Nola" | October 18, 2017 | 1.02 [31] | 
| 32 | 12 | "I Feel Like Beyonce" | October 25, 2017 | 1.04 [32] | 
| 33 | 13 | "Chi-Cabo – Part 1" | November 1, 2017 | 1.08 [33] | 
| 34 | 14 | "Chi-Cabo – Part 2" | November 8, 2017 | 1.02 [34] | 
| 35 | 15 | "My Little Sir Brumfield" | November 15, 2017 | 1.00 [35] | 
| 36 | 16 | "I Cleared My Truth" | November 22, 2017 | 0.87 [36] | 
| 37 | 17 | "Everybody Loves Kat" | November 29, 2017 | 1.02 [37] | 
| 38 | 18 | "Go Ahead, Becky" | December 6, 2017 | 1.20 [38] | 
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Original release date | U.S. viewers (millions) | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 39 | 1 | "The Takeover Begins" | May 30, 2018 | 1.15 [39] | 
| 40 | 2 | "9Mag Is Dead" | June 6, 2018 | 1.01 [40] | 
| 41 | 3 | "Tom, Dick, and Cobra" | June 13, 2018 | 1.10 [41] | 
| 42 | 4 | "A Whole New Squad" | June 20, 2018 | 1.07 [42] | 
| 43 | 5 | "New Lease, New Reese" | June 27, 2018 | 1.08 [43] | 
| 44 | 6 | "The H.B.I.C." | July 11, 2018 | 1.10 [44] | 
| 45 | 7 | "White Tacticals" | July 18, 2018 | 1.03 [45] | 
| 46 | 8 | "Do The Hussle" | July 25, 2018 | 1.09 [46] | 
| 47 | 9 | "Barbie Tingz" | August 1, 2018 | 0.96 [47] | 
| 48 | 10 | "All Phor One" | August 8, 2018 | 1.03 [48] | 
| 49 | 11 | "The Last Supper" | August 15, 2018 | 1.21 [49] | 
| 50 | 12 | "Reese, Scheduled" | August 22, 2018 | 1.03 [50] | 
| 51 | 13 | "Neek and You Shall Find" | August 29, 2018 | 1.10 [51] | 
| 52 | 14 | "One Time At Adult Camp" | September 5, 2018 | 0.92 [52] | 
| 53 | 15 | "I'm the New You" | September 12, 2018 | 1.00 [53] | 
| 54 | 16 | "Welcome to 9Mag...Again!" | September 19, 2018 | 1.13 [54] | 
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Original release date | U.S. viewers (millions) | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 55 | 1 | "9MAG is Forever" | January 2, 2019 | 1.07 [55] | 
| 56 | 2 | "Give Me a Smoothie Gina" | January 9, 2019 | 0.96 [56] | 
| 57 | 3 | "Tattoo Shop of Horrors" | January 16, 2019 | 0.93 [57] | 
| 58 | 4 | "Michael Jackson is Alive!" | January 23, 2019 | 0.87 [58] | 
| 59 | 5 | "She's Here If You Evenita" | January 30, 2019 | 0.94 [59] | 
| 60 | 6 | "Phor" | February 6, 2019 | 0.89 [60] | 
| 61 | 7 | "Potato with a Scarf On" | February 13, 2019 | 0.86 [61] | 
| 62 | 8 | "I Didn't Say I Hate Her (I Just Don't Like Her)" | February 20, 2019 | 0.92 [62] | 
| 63 | 9 | "I Hope You Make It to America" | February 27, 2019 | 0.76 [63] | 
| 64 | 10 | "Lacuna Matata" | March 6, 2019 | 0.83 [64] | 
| 65 | 11 | "Don't Come for Queen Latifah" | June 4, 2019 | 0.74 [65] | 
| 66 | 12 | "Ryantology" | June 11, 2019 | 0.66 [66] | 
| 67 | 13 | "Team Bonding!" | June 18, 2019 | 0.72 [67] | 
| 68 | 14 | "From Chi-ami to Sky-ami" | June 25, 2019 | 0.78 [68] | 
| 69 | 15 | "The Cover Up is Worse Than the Crime" | July 2, 2019 | 0.77 [69] | 
| 70 | 16 | "What Is This, A Reunion Show?" | July 9, 2019 | 0.73 [70] | 
| 71 | 17 | "The Steve Harvey Show" | July 16, 2019 | 0.71 [71] | 
| 72 | 18 | "Deja Vu" | July 23, 2019 | 0.79 [72] | 
| 73 | 19 | "The Vianna and the Long Haitian" | July 30, 2019 | 0.88 [73] | 
| 74 | 20 | "Period, End of Sentence" | August 6, 2019 | 0.82 [74] | 
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Original release date | U.S. viewers (millions) | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 75 | 1 | "The Future is Female" | December 4, 2019 | 0.72 [75] | 
| 76 | 2 | "Proper Excited" | December 4, 2019 | 0.74 [76] | 
| 77 | 3 | "World's Best Dad!" | December 11, 2019 | 0.60 [77] | 
| 78 | 4 | "Second City, Welcome Kitty" | December 18, 2019 | 0.59 [78] | 
| 79 | 5 | "My Big Fat Neek Wedding" | January 1, 2020 | 0.58 [79] | 
| 80 | 6 | "Glenda" | January 8, 2020 | 0.75 [80] | 
| 81 | 7 | "It's So Hard to Say Goodbye" | January 15, 2020 | 0.74 [81] | 
| 82 | 8 | "The Itty Bitty Kitty Committee" | January 22, 2020 | 0.63 [82] | 
| 83 | 9 | "Some People Like Cake, Some People Do Not Like Cake" | January 29, 2020 | 0.65 [83] | 
| 84 | 10 | "Don's Latest Snapchat Video" | February 5, 2020 | 0.69 [84] | 
| 85 | 11 | "Hot Off the Presses" | February 12, 2020 | 0.68 [85] | 
| 86 | 12 | "Rumor Had It" | February 19, 2020 | 0.64 [86] | 
| 87 | 13 | "Chicago Ain't That Big" | July 6, 2020 | 0.58 [87] | 
| 88 | 14 | "Mucus Still Plugged" | July 13, 2020 | 0.55 [88] | 
| 89 | 15 | "Other Side of the Pond" | July 20, 2020 | 0.54 [89] | 
| 90 | 16 | "The Shutdown" | July 27, 2020 | 0.52 [90] | 
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Original release date | U.S. viewers (millions) | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 91 | 1 | "Ready To Reclaim Our Time" | October 4, 2021 | 0.41 [91] | 
| 92 | 2 | "Second Episode, Second City" | October 11, 2021 | 0.37 [92] | 
| 93 | 3 | "What Happened With Us" | October 18, 2021 | 0.35 [93] | 
| 94 | 4 | "Always and Phorever" | October 25, 2021 | 0.37 [94] | 
| 95 | 5 | "Pros and Conventions" | November 1, 2021 | 0.33 [95] | 
| 96 | 6 | "This Platform is Black Ink Crew" | November 8, 2021 | 0.40 [96] | 
| 97 | 7 | "Is There A Doctor In The House?" | November 15, 2021 | 0.35 [97] | 
| 98 | 8 | "A Prince Among Women" | November 22, 2021 | 0.30 [98] | 
| 99 | 9 | "Did You Make That Comment About Charmaine?" | November 29, 2021 | 0.36 [99] | 
| 100 | 10 | "Put on Your Casper Suit" | December 6, 2021 | 0.35 [100] | 
| 101 | 11 | "Welcome to the World of Being Seen" | August 9, 2022 | N/A | 
| 102 | 12 | "Here Kitty Kitty" | August 16, 2022 | N/A | 
| 103 | 13 | "Fright of Our Lives" | August 23, 2022 | N/A | 
| 104 | 14 | "Phorplay" | August 30, 2022 | N/A | 
| 105 | 15 | "It's All Relative" | September 6, 2022 | 0.28 [101] | 
| 106 | 16 | "Gin and Juke" | September 13, 2022 | 0.21 [102] | 
| 107 | 17 | "Dude, Where's My Car?" | September 20, 2022 | 0.22 [103] | 
| 108 | 18 | "I Love Lisa and Lisa Loves Me Back" | September 27, 2022 | 0.21 [104] | 
| 109 | 19 | "Hey, I'm Walkin' Here!" | October 4, 2022 | 0.21 [105] | 
| 110 | 20 | "Is This the End?" | October 11, 2022 | 0.25 [106] |