JLL founder and former chairman and CEO passes away

Stuart Scott, who played a central role in building Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated from a small regional company into a leading global commercial real estate services and investment management firm, died at his home in Lake Bluff, Ill., on Feb. 25. He was 80.

The cause was complications related to Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, said his wife of 37 years, Anne O’Laughlin Scott, a retired Cook County judge and former commissioner of Martin County, Fla.

A founder of LaSalle Partners, and then JLL, Scott dedicated his life to the challenge of bringing professionalism, superior services, high ethical standards and a commitment to act always “in the client’s best interests” to the commercial real estate industry. He led the firm’s rapid growth, including its initial public offering in 1997 and a range of mergers and acquisitions highlighted by the 1999 merger of LaSalle and U.K.-based Jones Lang Wootton to form Jones Lang LaSalle. He remained chairman and CEO of JLL until