Why are flags at half-staff this week in Illinois?
Flags across Illinois will be lowered to half-staff in honor of a soldier from Joliet who died during a training exercise in Lithuania.
Jose Duenez Jr. and three other U.S. Army soldiers were found dead after their armored vehicle sank in a swamp while conducting a mission to repair and tow an immobilized tactical vehicle.
Duenez was just 25 years old and had a wife and a young child. He was a tank mechanic in the Army, a job his friends said he loved.
Governor JB Pritzker ordered flags to be lowered from sunrise on Tuesday until sunset on Thursday.
