The Illinois property tax is non-refundable meaning there if there is no tax liability before the credit, then the credit cannot be applied. Since you mention you have 0 tax for Illinois, this tells me that the credit cannot be claimed because there is no tax due prior to the credit being claimed.
Please read this Turbo Tax article posted about this subject.
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