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Last week, we were featured on WBBM Newsradio! Our Co-Executive Director Sharlyn Grace was interviewed about our revolving fund and how we had just paid bond to free our 150th person from Cook [...]

This morning, we proudly stood outside Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s house in solidarity with The People’s Lobby & SOUL – Southsiders Organized for Unity and Liberation (our partners [...]

These notices are now up outside trial courtrooms at 26th and California, the main criminal courthouse in Cook County. They state that people who are in jail without bail or because they cannot [...]

“‘Right now we have this really powerful national movement for bail reform and a lot of terrific momentum,’ Sharlyn Grace, the co-executive director of the Chicago Community [...]

On March 2nd, CCBF posted $3,000 in bond to free Leonard from house arrest with electronic monitoring. Leonard was born in Chicago and has lived in Chicago nearly his whole life. He is close to [...]

We are grateful to our friends at Hughes Socol Piers Resnick & Dym, Ltd.and The Roderick & Solange MacArthur Justice Center who put together this letter in support of [...]

On Tuesday, June 26, 2018, we paid bond to free our 150th person from Cook County Jail (CCJ). Since our founding in 2015, CCBF has posted more than $800,000 through our revolving bail fund to [...]

It has been more than nine months since General Order 18.8A went into effect in Cook County, directing judges to set money bonds only in amounts that people can afford to pay. Since then, the [...]

Earlier this week, the judge in the lawsuit to end money bond in Cook County issued a decision dismissing the case. *This not the decision we wanted, but it is the decision we expected. The civil [...]

Today, we joined more than 100 groups in signing this shared statement of civil rights concerns highlighting opposition to, and concerns with, the adoption of algorithmic based decision-making [...]