International Amphitheatre

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The International Amphitheatre was an indoor arena located in Chicago, Illinois. The arena, which sat 9,000, was the home of the Chicago Cougars of the WHA from 1972-1975. It was originally intended to be only a temporary home, but the permanent solution, the Rosemont Horizon, was not completed until 1980, five years after the team folded and a year after the WHA had gone out of business. It hosted the 1952 and 1960 Republican National Conventions and the 1952, 1956 and 1968 Democratic National Conventions, the last of which was one of the most tumultuous political conventions in American history.Template:US-struct-stub