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As part of Domestic Violence Awareness Month in October, CCBF co-hosted a virtual event alongside Women’s Justice Institute and Ascend Justice to hear from survivors who are currently [...]

November 21, 2022 marks the 7th anniversary of Chicago Community Bond Fund’s public launch, and we’ve used this occasion to reflect on all the work our community has done. In these past [...]

As of this month, Chicago Community Bond Fund has paid over $5 million to free more than 750 people in seven years!  Just since 2020, CCBF has paid $3.5 million of that total for 540 people [...]

Community and friends, we are looking for sponsors to help CCBF achieve our goals for the annual event next month. You can contribute funds or an in-kind donation for a raffle prize. We are so [...]

We know many of you have seen the incredibly harmful, anti-Black, racist, and classist lies from paper mailers and social media about the Pretrial Fairness Act. We want to ensure that you have [...]

CCBF wants to remain transparent and accountable to the community that makes our work possible. Therefore, we will continue to provide public updates on the operations of our Revolving Fund. Our [...]

On August 13th, Deon Lee died at Cook County Jail, the second person known to have died in the jail this month. Deon was 30 years old.  According to the Chicago Sun Times, the exact cause of [...]

Just one year ago, our community lost Malik Alim.  Malik embodied all it is to be an organizer—he was passionate about the work and about people and what we could accomplish when we [...]

We are devastated to learn of the death of Alteriq Pleasant, 27, who died on August 2nd while in custody at Cook County Jail. The Chicago Sun-Times reported that according to the sheriff’s [...]

Dear Community, Starting in 2019, Chicago Community Bond Fund decided to close for five days annually to give staff a chance to rest and rejuvenate. This year, CCBF will be closed August 1-5th [...]