This is your WORT local news for Monday, July 24.

• City officials are debating turning parts of State Street into a pedestrian mall,
• A special election in eastern Wisconsin puts Republicans just two seats away from a supermajority in the State Assembly,
• A pig on the near-west side draws the entire city’s attention after he was evicted from his home last week,
• And in the second half, this week in city and county meetings, we continue to experience what is known as a “flash drought,” and two new movie reviews.