About The Rolling Stones live in Chicago 1972…
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June 19, 1972: International Amphitheater, Chicago, IL, USA

The Rolling Stones American Tour 1972, also known as the “Stones Touring Party”, shortened to S.T.P., was a much-publicized and much-written-about concert tour of the United States and Canada in June and July 1972 by The Rolling Stones. Constituting the band’s first performances in the United States following the Altamont Free Concert in December 1969, critic Dave Marsh would later write that the tour was “part of rock and roll legend” and one of the “benchmarks of an era.”

The tour in part supported the group’s Exile on Main St. album, which was released a few weeks earlier on 12 May. It was also part of a tour-America-every-three-years rotation that the group established in 1969 and maintained through 1981.
On the first show of the tour, June 3 in Vancouver, British Columbia, 31 policemen were treated for injuries when more than 2,000 fans attempted to crash the Pacific Coliseum.

In San Diego on 13 June, there were 60 arrests and 15 injured during disturbances. In Tucson, Arizona on 14 June, an attempt by 300 youths to storm the gates led to police using tear gas. On 16 June, after the Denver shows, in a hotel suite, Stephen Stills and Keith Richards drew knives in an argument. While in Chicago for three appearances on 19 and 20 June, the group stayed at Hugh Hefner’s original Playboy Mansion in the Gold Coast district. Eighty-one people were arrested at the two sell-out Houston shows on 25 June, mostly for marijuana possession and other minor drug offenses. There were 61 arrests in the large crowd at RFK Stadium in Washington, D.C. on the Fourth of July.
(From Wikipedia)