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We are happy to have been featured on this week’s The Seminary Co-op Bookstores Open Stacks Podcast alongside authors Susan Burton and Michaela Soyer! You should listen to the whole thing [...]

CCBF co-founder Matt McLoughlin was on KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles / 98.7 FM Santa Barbara “This is Happening” with Jerry Quickley earlier this week talking about our work and [...]

CCBF co-founder Sharlyn Grace analyzes what the recent court rule change in Cook County means, and why it matters for the entire country in this new Truthout Op-Ed. “As of July 17, 2017, [...]

CCBF advocate Lavette Mayes has just published her first piece of writing with the wonderful Truthout! In it, Lavette details her experience in Cook County Jail and at home on electronic [...]

We are happy to share with you CCBF’s first ever letter to the editor! Please read and share this short response to recent Tribune articles supporting legislation that will actually [...]

We are happy to be featured in this great new article and video from The Christian Science Monitor on bail reform in America! “Chicago Community Bond Fund (CCBF) has posted more than [...]

Check out this article in Pacific Standard documenting how advocates in Chicago (us!), New York, and beyond are fighting GOP moneymen, and major insurance companies, to end the predatory practice.

Thanks to Devoureaux “King Detro” Wolf for sharing his story with Chicago magazine! “The King had spent over a month awaiting trial in Cook County Jail when he heard about a [...]

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 [...]

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!