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Today we are happy to release our first ever “End-of-year Report” detailing the past year of CCBF’s work! Please take a couple minutes to check out the statistics about requests [...]

Thanks so much to everyone who came out Saturday night to celebrate our one year anniversary. Thanks to you we raised $9,000 dollars! In just three days, we have already reached 33% of our goal [...]

Check out this great profile by Chicagoist on our one-year anniversary party and the work ahead to end monetary bond in Illinois!  “It’s been a year since local activists set up a [...]

Yesterday, CCBF members and people we posted bond for played a central role in the Cook County Board’s Ending Cash Bail at Cook County Jail hearing. CCBF helped organize a panel of people [...]

Yesterday, Chicago Community Bond Fund testified alongside representatives of Chicago Appleseed, Target Area Development Corporation, and Cook County Public Defender Amy Campanelli to defeat a [...]

Two weeks ago, Sheriff Dart’s legislative proposal to address pretrial detention was almost laughably inadequate: he proposed allowing the Sheriff’s office to request bond reductions [...]

An incredibly generous anonymous donor secured through Black Lives Matter Chicago is providing $50,000 to get Michael out of Cook County Jail! We plan to post bond for him as soon as possible [...]

On Saturday, an off-duty Chicago Police officer shot & killed Joshua Beale, a 25 year old father of two from Indianapolis. Josh was murdered in the Mount Greenwood neighborhood of Chicago, a [...]

CCBF member Lavette was interviewed by Chicago Tonight about being incarcerated in Cook County Jail for 14 months because she could not post her bond. Watch her interview here!

We are so happy to have been able to post bond for Isaiah last night! Isaiah was incredibly moved that Chicago SQUAD and other members of the #BlackLivesMatter community immediately jumped into [...]