The Dresden Files and a little Chicago pride

Hello folks, this is Brendan Detzner (the tall handsome one). I've been a busy bee this weekend working on my submission for the next CF show, but I've been sneaking in some reading too and wanted to throw a couple of questions to the crowd. Specifically, I've been trying to bone up on some of the current offerings in the Urban Fantasy section of the bookstore in preparation for any upcoming project of my own set in wonderful Chicago, looking for cliches to avoid and cool ideas to rip off.

The elephant in the room when it comes to Chicago urban fantasy is of course Jim Baker's Dresden Files books, which I've felt obligated to snack on a little bit. So far I haven't really fallen in love- strictly a matter of my own taste, feel free to disagree- and one of the big sticking points for me is how he uses Chicago. It's clear that he doesn't live here or know much about the city that you couldn't pick up from internet research, but he keeps throwing in street and neighborhood names in a way I would find distracting even if he were more accurate about what the places he's talking about are actually like. I'm a big fan of crime authors like George Pelacanos and Richard Price who often use intense research into urban locations as a starting place for their books. It'd be my preference for Baker to either go that far, or else to just admit that he's pretty much using Chicago as Generic Large City X and not sweat the details.

I'm curious- am I being too sensitive? Does anybody else have this problem? Also, any good horror/fantasy/genre books set in Chicago that make better use of the setting? I'd love to hear what you all think.