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Today, Chicago Community Bond Fund is proud to release “Communities, Not Cages,” a new report documenting why Cook County should reduce the sheriff’s bloated jail budget. In [...]

Yesterday, we had the pleasure of visiting Urbana-Champaign to talk about the fight to End Money Bail and pretrial incarceration in Illinois! CCBF is excited to be taking this fight statewide in [...]

On September 19, 2018, Edward Robinson died in the Lake County Jail. He was just 32 years old. Mr. Robinson’s death was publicly announced on September 21st, but Lake County Sheriff Mark [...]

Download our new report on bond reform in Cook County: Shifting Sands: An Investigation Into The First Year of Bond Reform In Cook County One year ago on this day, General Order 18.8A took effect [...]

This past winter, CCBF worked with Thedford Garber Law to file a class action lawsuit against Sheriff Dart’s practice of unconstitutionally denying people release on Electronic Monitoring [...]

Today, we visited Rockford, IL with A Just Harvest to talk about the fight to #EndMoneyBail in Illinois! CCBF is excited to be taking this fight statewide in 2019. If [...]

Yvette’s son, Tim, has been on electronic monitoring at her apartment in South Shore for almost an entire year. CCBF worked with Yvette to pay Tim’s $6,500 bond (a $65,000 D-Bond) and secure his [...]

Four years ago today, 17-year-old DeSean Pittman was shot and killed by Chicago Police. A few days after DeSean’s death, his family gathered for a vigil to uplift his memory. Chicago Police came [...]

Please join our friend Rachel Wallis at this important event this Saturday, where you can help create quilts designed by women in Cook County Jail. The Inheritance Quilt is a collaboration with [...]

Today, Aretha Franklin passed away at the age of 76. In 1970, the queen of soul committed to paying bail to free Angela Davis. She was quoted in the December 1970 issue of Jet Magazine saying [...]