Our Goals
Our dream is to create Chicago’s first worker cooperative distillery and tasting room. This will be a space filled with locally produced art for the community to organize, gather, and enjoy.
To make this dream a reality, we are starting small. Our current stage of development includes a partnership with Two Eagles Distillery. With the use of their equipment, we are able to produce our rum and build connections with consumers, restaurants, and retailers.
To continue growing toward our goals we need investors, lenders, and community partners to support our vision and become a part of it.
Three Tenets
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The liquor industry creates new product everyday, often at the expense of the planet and the lives’ of employees. But it doesn’t have to be this way. We believe the highest quality spirits focus on worker equity, healthy communities, and a sustainable planet. CCC’s commitment to equity is envisioned by running one of the first worker-owned distilleries in the world.
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Worker ownership means employees are continually compensated fairly and have a say in the trajectory of CCC. This creates a transparent culture that extends to the products themselves. This means bottles display the ingredients used in production, as well as how these ingredients were cultivated.
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Creativity is a central tenet of life. Innovation tends to happen by accident- often when we are playing. For CCC this means experimenting, like sourcing local ingredients to create rum-based infusions, using a solera-system to age our rum, and any other playful ideas that might pop in our heads.