Archives

On March 2nd of this year, the Chicago Community Bond Fund posted $5,000 in bond to free Ivan from Cook County Jail. Posting Ivan’s bond allowed him to reunite with his three children, who [...]

Read part one of a new story about CCBF’s work from Shadowproof: “The most effective prisoner solidarity efforts work to address the immediate harm of incarceration while fighting to [...]

On March 22, the Chicago Community Bond Fund posted $7,500 in bond for Michael, enabling him to reunite with his two-year-old child at home in Minnesota. Michael’s family contributed $2,500 [...]

A year ago yesterday, Pierre Loury was shot and killed by Chicago Police. Pierre, a 16 year-old resident of the West Side, was trying to climb the back fence to his home in North Lawndale when [...]

On April 4th, CCBF posted bond to free Cody and Ron from Cook County Jail. They were both arrested on Saturday, April 1st at a Hood2Hood community engagement program and neighborhood cleanup in [...]

Congrats to the Minnesota Freedom Fund on their success in bailing out 33 people from jail, all of whom were incarcerated because they could not pay $1,000 or less! About a year ago, we met with [...]

CCBF is excited to announce that on March 9th, Matthew was found not guilty of his criminal charge after a bench trial! Matthew was arrested on January 20, 2017, when tens of thousands of people [...]

We are sharing the heartbreaking news that Isaiah Montes, a 19 year old Black Lives Matter activist that we posted bond for, passed away yesterday in a car accident. CCBF worked with Chicago [...]

On Christmas Eve, CCBF posted $5,000 to free Andre from Cook County Jail. He had been locked up for more than five months because he couldn’t pay the bond he was given after being arrested [...]

Last year, we posted $257,650 in bond to free 59 people from Cook County Jail or house arrest. This graphic displays how our revolving fund works. For more details on what we accomplished last [...]