The flags on the State Capitol looked lower than it usually is.

Focusing closer, I saw they were.

But it didn’t hit me that flags were being flown at half-mast until I saw these two flag poles behind the stag at the Visitor’s Center next to the Stratton Office Building where I used to work for the Department of Central Management Services.

I asked the woman at the Visitor’s Center, but she hadn’t been told why. She did say that when members of the Illinois Armed Forces died, state flags were flown at half staff.

That’s when it hit me.

These flags were being flow at half-mast because of the death of Lake in the Hill’s Spc. Lukasz Saczek.