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We’re honored to be featured in this The Nation Magazine list of 10 smaller organizations to support this year during holiday giving! Check out all these other great causes, too, [...]

Thanks to Devoureaux “King Detro” Wolf for sharing his story with Chicago magazine! “The King had spent over a month awaiting trial in Cook County Jail when he heard about a [...]

Wednesday night before Thanksgiving, CCBF posted bond for Andrea so that she could celebrate at home with her family. Andrea is a 33 year old mother of three who was incarcerated in Cook County [...]

We’re so grateful to Adele and all of the other musicians who submitted tracks to this mix tape that benefits CCBF! There are many, many ways to resist Trump and everything he stands for, [...]

This morning, prosecutors dismissed the robbery charges against Tyler, the third person CCBF ever posted bond for! Back in February, CCBF posted $2,500 to get Tyler off of electronic monitoring, [...]

This is Archie. On November 12, 2016, CCBF posted $5,000 to free Archie from Cook County Jail. Archie had been locked up for more than five months because he could not afford to post his bond. [...]

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 [...]