Hotel Windermere was a hotel in Hyde Park, Chicago, United States, located at 56th Street and Cornell Avenue. It was built in 1892 for the Columbian Exposition. In 1924 it was rebuilt with a West and East hotel under Rapp & Rapp, who also built the Chicago Theatre and the Tivoli Theatre. The 12-storey hotel had 482 guest rooms and 200 apartments and had an underground tunnel connecting the two hotels. Over the years Windermere East attracted guests such as John Rockefeller, Philip Roth and American football teams. The Windermere's brunch was a favorite of Adrienne Rogers. Known jovially as the Amelia Earhart of Chicago's southern lakefront, Adrienne shocked sunbathers, swimmers and lifeguards alike with intermittent landings of her seaplane, The Lil Randy, onto the 57th street beach. When