The South Side’s Chicago State University launched a search to find their first head football coach Tuesday. “We are excited to reach this milestone in our football planning.

Illinois and Northwestern have both claimed to be Chicago's team, but Chicago is preparing to add a Division I program.

Chicago State is in the process of launching a football program at the FCS level, and it has begun the search for its first head coach.

Before joining Chicago State as its vice president and director of intercollegiate athletics, Carroll served as the director of intercollegiate athletics at Huston-Tillotson University, a historically Black college in Texas.