Midwestern has sent more students to residency programs (including Johns Hopkins and the Mayo Clinic) in the past 5 years than UIC. .
MWU graduates significantly more students than UIC, 200 vs 160, and so, naturally, if percentages hold equal between the two schools, will send more students to residencies.
Some Midwestern students actually do academic rotations at UIC.
UIC pharmacy has one of the largest pharmacy rotation programs. You can sites as varied as Abbott and Caremark. You can stay in Chicago or head downstate. From my understanding, for rotations, if an insitution has to pay for its students to be placed, it is looked down upon. In many health care circles, it is seen that the university in question is bad. I hear a lot about this issue from the medical students.
At some locations, both UIC and MWU rotate together.
This is a list of current research opportunities at UIC pharmacy.
http://www.uic.edu/pharmacy/offices/oaa/oaa1/z2007/Potential_topics_fall07.pdf
When it comes to NAPLEX/MBJE, it seems like every school is above average.
A large amount of renovation is being completed at UIC. The 2 North wing, with its fancy plasma TVs, was just completed. They are about to embark on renovating the compounding lab from what I hear. We are about to get a new dean.
You'll be at UIC during its 150th anniversary.
For this year, UIC in-state tuition and fees, for students who entered after summer 2006 was about $8,300 per semester. They have not stated next year's tuition yet.