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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 [...]

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 [...]

Yesterday, all criminal charges against Lee Dewey were dropped and their case was resolved as a non-criminal violation of a municipal ordinance!!!! This is a fantastic result, and it is also [...]

Last week, we were featured on WBBM Newsradio! Our Co-Executive Director Sharlyn Grace was interviewed about our revolving fund and how we had just paid bond to free our 150th person from Cook [...]

On March 2nd, CCBF posted $3,000 in bond to free Leonard from house arrest with electronic monitoring. Leonard was born in Chicago and has lived in Chicago nearly his whole life. He is close to [...]

On Tuesday, June 26, 2018, we paid bond to free our 150th person from Cook County Jail (CCJ). Since our founding in 2015, CCBF has posted more than $800,000 through our revolving bail fund to [...]

CCBF organizer Lavette Mayes speaking at #ACLUcon18 with Jay Ellis of Insecure about the fight to #EndMoneyBail & the 14 months she spent in Cook County Jail [...]

Earlier this week, CCBF organizer Lavette Mayes was featured along with Su’ad Abdul Khabeer of Sapelo Square: An Online Resource on Black Muslims in the U.S., one of our partners in [...]

Thanks to Worldview for having CCBF’s Director of Advocacy Irene Romulo and Believers Bail Out organizer Nabihah Maqbool join the show yesterday! You can listen to the entire 13 minute [...]

Today, Broadly published an op-ed by CCBF organizer Lavette Mayes. In this article, Lavette shares her own experience with pretrial incarceration and explains why she is organizing [...]