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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 [...]

Yesterday, Chicago Community Bond Fund testified alongside representatives of Chicago Appleseed, Target Area Development Corporation, and Cook County Public Defender Amy Campanelli to defeat a [...]

Two weeks ago, Sheriff Dart’s legislative proposal to address pretrial detention was almost laughably inadequate: he proposed allowing the Sheriff’s office to request bond reductions [...]

An incredibly generous anonymous donor secured through Black Lives Matter Chicago is providing $50,000 to get Michael out of Cook County Jail! We plan to post bond for him as soon as possible [...]

On Saturday, an off-duty Chicago Police officer shot & killed Joshua Beale, a 25 year old father of two from Indianapolis. Josh was murdered in the Mount Greenwood neighborhood of Chicago, a [...]

CCBF member Lavette was interviewed by Chicago Tonight about being incarcerated in Cook County Jail for 14 months because she could not post her bond. Watch her interview here!