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Happy New Year! This month, CCBF paid bond for the 300th person. Getting to this point required paying more than $1.5 million dollars in ransom money to Cook County. We are grateful for your [...]

In October, an unidentified 30-year-old man from the Lawndale neighborhood became the fourth person known to have died in the custody of the Cook County Sheriff in 2019. He was incarcerated in a [...]

READ OUR END OF YEAR REPORT HERE! In our fourth year of operation, Chicago Community Bond Fund surpassed one million dollars paid in bond to free people in Cook County from jail or house arrest [...]

This week, CCBF welcomed our newest team member: Malik Alim is the new Campaign Coordinator for the Coalition to End Money Bond! You can read his bio below. Malik Alim is an organizer, [...]

We are proud to unveil “No More Shackles: Arguing Against Pretrial Electronic Monitoring,” a new video created in partnership with MediaJustice, a companion piece to their [...]

On August 19, 2019, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) proposed an amended disparate impact rule that would make it harder for people to fight housing discrimination and [...]

CCBF is tremendously excited to welcome two new staff members to our team this week! Keisa Reynolds is CCBF’s new Deputy Director. Ashlyn Ruga is CCBF’s new intake coordinator.* We [...]

Today, the Cook County’s Sheriff’s Office will be asking the Cook County Board for even more money. Despite a massive 45% decrease in the number of people incarcerated in Cook County [...]

Chicago Community Bond Fund is proud to stand in solidarity with the Chicago Teachers Union. Abolition is not simply the absence of jails and prisons; it is also the presence of the things our [...]

In July, 2017 Alliyah was escorted into Cook County’s central bond court without knowing what to expect. As the prosecutor began to read the allegations against her, there was no opportunity to [...]