Moving to the City: Lessons Learned from Working With Municipalities - GGOL-CD

Christy Webber is president and founder of Christy Webber Landscapes, a $20 million Chicago-based landscape contracting firm. The firm has more than 250 employees providing landscape design, construction and maintenance to residential, commercial and municipal clients. In 1998, Christy became the first woman in the state of Illinois to become a Certified Landscape Technician (CLT). She has subsequently been inducted into the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame and selected as the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Small Business Week 2009 “Entrepreneurial Success of the Year.” Her company has received numerous distinctions as well, such as repeated inclusion on both Inc. Magazine’s “Inner City 100” list of America's fastest-growing urban businesses and Lawn and Landscape Magazine’s Top 100 companies.