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We are so happy to have been able to post bond for Isaiah last night! Isaiah was incredibly moved that Chicago SQUAD and other members of the #BlackLivesMatter community immediately jumped into [...]

Our first birthday is coming up, and our annual party is just two and a half weeks away!! We posted our first bonds in December 2015; since then, we’ve posted more than $200,000 in bond to [...]

Chicago Community Bond Fund was featured in an ABC 7 Chicago story last night about Bianca Young, a young mother incarcerated for 2 years because she could not pay her outrageous money bail and [...]

Join the Chicago Community Bond Fund for a night of discussion and exploration around the concepts of risk and dangerousness. As we work to abolish monetary bond and end pretrial incarceration, [...]

This past Friday, Chicago Black Lives Matter activist Jared Steverson was arrested in court; he was there for his first appearance following the large July 9th protests for Alton [...]

This morning, Ron’s case was dismissed. By posting a mere $1,000 on his behalf, CCBF was able to prevent Ron from spending the last 9 days in Cook County Jail. Thank you for making this [...]

We apologize for the delayed accounting of our last specific fundraising effort in support of the #BlackLivesMatter protesters arrested on Saturday, July 9th. We have now updated the fundraising [...]

Per National Lawyers Guild Chicago: Both activists charged with felonies from Saturday’s protests were in bond court today. The judge set Ja’Mal Green’s bond at $350,000 [...]

Join us in two weeks for a community dinner with our friends at Black and Pink: Chicago! We’ll be breaking bread, hearing from formerly incarcerated members of Black & Pink and clients [...]

On July 9th, 2016 hundreds of Chicagoans came together to honor the memories of Alton Sterling & Philando Castile and to declare, unambiguously, the Black Live Matter. The Chicago police, in [...]