Thank you for your response.  Yes I selected non resident state on the info worksheet. I did not QUICKZOOM to  fill the non residency worksheet as ZERO at the federal level. Source of problem I guess. 

Agreed to the tax credit for IL, guess I was just puzzled on why if I selected the MI in IL tax return that it didn't calculate correctly or give me some type of error message, I think an error message was in order here.  And why two tax years filed this way was never questioned, just the third.  Guess IL is getting better with their controls as they are desperate for some money.

Good suggestion on filing the non resident state first, I was thinking the same.  I am lucky this is a family member who may forgive me...... And they stopped working out of state late 2020 so that will be my last year dealing with this.