When CeaseFire temporarily lost funding in 2007-2008, what happened to shootings in Chicago?
• Former Governor Blagojevich cut CeaseFire funding in the summer of 2007 forcing most of CeaseFire’s communities to close down. Funding has recently been reinstated and we are back to working to decrease violence in Chicago communities, but during the time when CeaseFire was shut down, shootings skyrocketed. For more information, go to our data page on the effects of the budget cut. Also, this has been report on in the Chicago Defender.