Where to live in Chicago is a dilemma. With RIC, you can live close, and pay more in rent than you earn on a resident's salary, or you can do the long commute. Loyalo is in a bad neighborhood, so commuting is the only viable option. I think the only one around C-town without that problem is Marionjoy - Wheaton and surrounding areas are good places to live. The area around Rush isn't too bad.
Marionjoy has a very good reputation as a rehab center. I did a rotation there as an M-4 (back in the stone age) and it is a good, large facility. I'm too far removed to know how the residency is now. Back then, it was mostly Loyala and Rush residents there. Most of the attendings I knew then are still there, I found them to be good teachers.