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Extra Extra: In Bet With LA Mayor, Rahm Emanuel Wins Pastrami Sandwiches & Sriracha

By Amy Cavanaugh in News on Jun 9, 2013 10:00PM

• Rahm Emanuel won a bet with L.A.'s mayor when the Blackhawks defeated the Kings yesterday. He will receive "nine #19 Pastrami Sandwiches from Phillipe the Original, one case of Morehouse Mustard (the official mustard of the LA Dodgers), one case of beer each from LA’s own Golden Road and Eagle Rock Breweries, three Hollenbeck five-pound Burritos from El Tepeyac Café, 12 bottles of Sriracha Chili Sauce, and one copy of YogaWorks for Everybody to 'maintain [Emanuel’s] newfound inner peace.'" [NBC Chicago One and Two]

• Longtime Lyric Opera director Bruno Bartoletti has died. [Tribune]

• A 19-year-old man was hit by a car on Lake Shore Drive. [Tribune]

• Illinois State professors found a missing page from a young Abraham Lincoln's school workbook. [Tribune]

• Chicago teachers are watching Philadelphia's impending school layoffs. [Sun-Times]