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Last week, Laura Washington wrote about Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson’s appearance at her political salon at Yoshi’s Cafe. The article focused on Johnson’s response to a [...]

Over the weekend, Sheriff Tom Dart spoke to WBBM’s Craig Dellimore and claimed that bond reform in Cook County has gone too far. His remarks come after Chief Judge Timothy Evans reported earlier [...]

Between January and March, judges in Cook County’s Central Bond Court set unaffordable money bonds and no bonds in only 17% of cases, nearly a 10% decrease from the same time period last year. In [...]

The number of people incarcerated pretrial in Cook County continues to drop to new historic lows, and yet the need to purchase the freedom of other people remains. Last week, CCBF paid bond for [...]

Last night, ABC-7 ran a misleading story on the impact of bond reform in Cook County. The one-sided piece was informed by Sheriff Tom Dart, who believes that reforms to Cook County’s pretrial [...]

As of today, the number of people incarcerated at Cook County Jail has reached a new historic low.  There are currently 5,750 people incarcerated at CCJ. When we began this work in 2015, [...]

On December 17, 2018, two Chicago police officers were struck by a Metra train and killed. Police allege that they were pursuing Edward Brown, a 24-year old Black man who had never been arrested [...]

Today, there are 5,888 people incarcerated in Cook County Jail. Of those people, at least 2,500 are being held pretrial simply because they can’t afford to pay a money bail. A recent report [...]

Earlier this month, Chicago Community Bond Fund reached a new milestone: we have now paid over $1,000,000 in bond to free people in Cook County from jail or house arrest with electronic [...]

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 [...]