Chicago State University

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Coordinates: 41.717646° N 87.609744° W

For the unaffiliated state university also located in Chicago, see the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Chicago State University
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Established September 2, 1867
Type: State Funded
Endowment: $3,763,212
President: Dr. Elnora D. Daniel
Faculty: 470
Students: 6,835
Undergraduates: 4,531
Postgraduates: 2,304
Location Chicago, Illinois, USA
Campus: Urban
Colors: Evergreen and White
Mascot: Cougars
Affiliations: NCAA Division I
Website: http://www.csu.edu/

Chicago State University (CSU) is a state university in Chicago, Illinois.

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The university was founded in 1867 and became permanently established in its original location as the Cook County Normal School in 1870. In 1897, the school was renamed Chicago Normal School, which became the Chicago Normal College in 1913. Between 1913 and 1936 The school changed its name once again and became known as the Chicago Teachers College. The college location at that time was on 71st Street and Normal Avenue in the heart of Chicago's Black community and just a few blocks from Englewood High School. In 1968 the year that Martin Luther King Jr and Robert F. Kennedy were assassinated, the state of Illinois acquired the institution and once again received a name change, this time as Illinois Teachers College: Chicago South (the Chicago South portion was soon dropped). In 1967, the institution became known as Chicago State College and, finally, gained university status and its current name in 1971. In 1971 the old campus was torn down and moved to its present location on 9501 S. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive.

The school's sports teams are called the Cougars and team colors are green and white. CSU participates in the NCAA's Division I. From 1994 until June 2006, CSU was a member of the Mid-Continent Conference, but withdrew and took independent status at that time. Prior to gaining NCAA 1 status; the university enjoyed memberships in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics and NCAA Division 2.

Melvin Bland is the first CSU student athlete to gain NAIA All-American status in 1974 as a wrestler. Tyrone Everhart also was a NAIA Honorable Mention All-American wrestler the same year.


The first NAIA District #20 Championship Team in any sport was the 1975 wrestling team which captured NAIA District #20 Championship coached by Dr. James G. Pappas. The Cougar Wrestling Team also won District #20 titles in 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979 and 1980.


The CSU Men’s Basketball Team in 1984 captured 3rd.place at the NAIA National Championships. The teams performance through the tournament as follows:

Chicago State (Ill.) 79, Franklin Pierce (N.H.) 62

Chicago State 105, Kearney State 104 2OT

Chicago State 68, Chaminade 66 (Quarterfinals)

Fort Hays State 86, Chicago State 84 OT (Semifinals)

Chicago State 86, Westmont 82 OT (3rd)

1974 Melvin Bland All-American - Third Team Wrestling

1975 Fred Evans All-American Men's Swimming & Diving

1976 Fred Evans All-American Men's Swimming & Diving

1976 Scott White All-American Men's Swimming & Diving

1977 John Ebito All-American Men's Swimming & Diving

1977 Fred Evans All-American Men's Swimming & Diving

1978 Ken Cyrus All-American - Second Team Men's Basketball

1979 Joseph Curtis All-American Men's Indoor Track & Field

1979 Joseph Curtis All-American Men's Outdoor Track & Field

1979 Chandler Mackey All-American Wrestling

1979 Mike Eversley All-American - Second Team Men's Basketball

1980 Derrick Hardy All-American Wrestling

1980 Chandler Mackey All-American Wrestling

1980 Ken Dancy All-American - Second Team Men's Basketball

1981 Eric Blackmon All-American Men's Swimming & Diving

1983 Jon Jahnke Academic All-American Baseball

1983 Sherrod Arnold All-American - First Team Men's Basketball

1983 Stanley Griffin All-American - First Team Men's Outdoor Track & Field

1984 Denise Bullocks All-American Women's Outdoor Track & Field

1984 Lionel Keys All-American Wrestling

1984 Learando Drake All-American - Third Team Men's Basketball

1984 Charles Perry All-Tournament Team - First Team Men's Basketball

1984 Denise Bullocks Outstanding Performer Women's Outdoor Track & Field

1984 Denise Bullocks Scholar-Athlete Women's Outdoor Track & Field

1986 Jimmy McGriff All-American Men's Indoor Track & Field

1987 Denise Bullocks All-American Women's Outdoor Track & Field

1987 Deanail Mitchell All-American Men's Indoor Track & Field

1987 David Rogan All-American Men's Indoor Track & Field

1987 Enos Watts All-American Men's Outdoor Track & Field

1987 Chris Garrett All-American Men's Outdoor Track & Field

1987 David Rogan All-American Men's Outdoor Track & Field

1987 Ron Walton All-American Men's Outdoor Track & Field

1987 Deanail Mitchell All-American Men's Outdoor Track & Field

1987 Denise Bullocks All-American Women's Indoor Track & Field

Emil and Patricia A. Jones Convocation Center is a 7,000-seat multi-purpose arena in Chicago, Illinois on the campus of Chicago State University. The arena houses the Chicago State University Cougars basketball teams. It replaces the Jacoby D. Dickens Athletic Center, which only had capacity to seat 2,500 persons. Among sporting events, the convocation center will houses concerts, conferences, and special city-wide events. The convocation center is unique among Illinois university athletic projects, because Chicago State University did not have to raise any money for the project.

The Jacoby D. Dickens Center (JDC) is home of the Chicago State University Department of Intercollegiate Athletics. The building was built in 1971 and was formerly known as the CSU Athletics Building until 1995, when it was dedicated to renowned Chicago businessman Jacoby D. Dickens.

Inside the Jacoby D. Dickens Center is a 2,500-seat gymnasium, three swimming pools, a fitness center, eight locker rooms, three classrooms, a dance studio, an auxiliary and a multipurpose gymnasium. In addition, the building is home to CSU’s athletic department and also home of the university’s Health and Physical Education Department.

The University's library, dedicated in October 2006, features a state of the art robotic retrieval system, which currently holds most of the library's material that was produced before 1991. The system is called ROVER (Retrieval Online Via Electronic Robot) and can retrieve five books in 2.5 minutes, on average; the average time for a student to retrieve five books is 2 hours. The system has a capacity of 800,000 volumes and its database is backed up in at least two offsite locations.[1]

Marlow H. Colvin, Illinois State Representative (2001 - present) Constatence A. "Connie" Howard, Illinois State Representative (1995 - present) Donne E. Trotter 1988-93 (House); 1993-Present (Senate)

  1. ^ Erin Biba. "Biblio Tech". Wired (January 2007): 33. 

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