The pay is very similar to Great Lakes' pay scale.
I believe their posted minimums are 1000/100, but I know they hire below that, and they are very short of FO's right now. Never hurts to just start sending your stuff in there.
The schedules sound like they're somewhat commutable because when they shrunk the Nashville base, a lot of people kept living in Nashville and commuted to St Louis, although I don't know how easy/hard it has been for them.
Most of their captains have been going to AirTran lately.
Avi8er1008: like 4word said, you might want to get up to 1000/100 and apply at skywest. You'd probably be put in the brasilia at first but after a 1-year seat lock you could transition to the RJ and be based in Chicago, which is the most junior base, so you would have better seniority than any other base.
Or another option: Try to get on at Regions, fly there for a year, build hundreds of hours of 121 turbine time while commuting from Chicago, and then apply at SkyWest, where you'd probably be put straight into the RJ in Chicago because of your turbine time.