Akenya To Perform at CCBF’s Annual Party
We are so happy to tell you that we’ll be joined by Akenya at our 4th Annual Party! Get your tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/chicago-community-bond-fund-en… Akenya is a multi-genre [...]
CCBF Testifies at the Cook County Board Hearing
This morning, CCBF gave testimony about the Sheriff’s jail budget at a County Board hearing. We argued that Cook County should divest from pretrial incarceration and invest in criminalized [...]
Quilting Across Prison Walls
Last night, we joined textile artist Rachel Wallis for a community quilting circle for Inheritance: Quilting Across Prison Walls. Inheritance is a collaboration with a group of women in Cook [...]
Chief Judge’s Budget Hearing
This morning, we were at the County Board hearing on the Chief Judge’s budget. We shared fact sheets on how bail reform has saved the thousands of dollars by reducing the number of people [...]
“Communities, Not Cages” Report Release
Today, Chicago Community Bond Fund is proud to release “Communities, Not Cages,” a new report documenting why Cook County should reduce the sheriff’s bloated jail budget. In [...]
Welcome CCBF’S New Campaign Coordinator
We are excited to announce our newest staff person: Ruby Pinto! Starting today, Ruby will be serving as the Campaign Coordinator for the Coalition to End Money Bond. Since 2014, Ruby has had the [...]
CCBF Visits Urbana-Champaign
Yesterday, we had the pleasure of visiting Urbana-Champaign to talk about the fight to End Money Bail and pretrial incarceration in Illinois! CCBF is excited to be taking this fight statewide in [...]
RIP Edward Robinson
On September 19, 2018, Edward Robinson died in the Lake County Jail. He was just 32 years old. Mr. Robinson’s death was publicly announced on September 21st, but Lake County Sheriff Mark [...]