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The holidays can be a wonderful time of the year. They are a time for families to come together, celebrate, and reflect on what they are grateful for. As we gather with our loved ones this [...]

One year ago today, local media was celebrating the fact that the number of people incarcerated in Cook County Jail dropped to a historic low of 5,909. Today, we are glad to see the number of [...]

This morning, the Chicago Sun-Times Editorial Board released an editorial about 19 people who are currently incarcerated in Cook County Jail pretrial on unaffordable money bonds, calling it a [...]

Devoureaux Wolf, better known as King Detro, is Chicago’s footwork king. Reigning from Chicago’s West Side, Devoureaux has won countless dance competitions, hosted WalaCam, and [...]

We so greatly appreciate every one that came out to join us for our fourth annual end of year party! We had a wonderful time and hope you did as well! By the night’s end, we raised more [...]

This is a photo of Tyler removing his ankle monitor. On Saturday, February 13th, CCBF posted a $2,500 bond that allowed Tyler to get off of electronic monitoring (“EM”). Tyler is 20 [...]

CCBF posted $5,000 to bond 24 year old Fabian off of electronic monitoring (“EM”). For the past four months that he has been on EM, the Cook County Sheriff’s office has rarely [...]

Robert is a 21 year-old Black resident of Beverly, where he lives with his mother and three younger siblings. He was arrested in June 2015 and charged with robbery. Robert’s bail was [...]

On April 4th, CCBF posted bond to free Cody and Ron from Cook County Jail. They were both arrested on Saturday, April 1st at a Hood2Hood community engagement program and neighborhood cleanup in [...]