One injured, 14 displaced after Evanston apartment fire
Around 10:40 p.m., Evanston firefighters responded to a fire on the second floor of a multi-family high-rise at 2300 Noyes Street.
John Dodge is CBS Chicago's Director of Digital Content. John has been a journalist for nearly four decades with experience in print, television and online platforms.
He started in Lafayette, Indiana, covering high school sports for the Journal and Courier newspaper in the mid-1980s.
He eventually became Executive News Editor at the Chicago Sun-Times in the 1990s, overseeing the editing and production of the daily news section for one of the largest newspapers in the country.
He later moved to CBS as Senior Editor and was named Executive Producer of cbschicago.com in 2007. In that role, he managed a staff of journalists on a website that combined the journalistic resources of CBS 2 News, Newsradio 780-AM, and WSCR-670, the sports radio station in Chicago.
In 2016, Dodge was promoted to Director of Digital Content for CBS Chicago and oversees all digital operations on the station's various digital platforms, including the website and the television station's social media channels.
Mr. Dodge graduated from Purdue University with a degree in communications. He lives in Northwest Indiana with his wife and two children.
Around 10:40 p.m., Evanston firefighters responded to a fire on the second floor of a multi-family high-rise at 2300 Noyes Street.
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