Pleasant Prairie is a village in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. Located in Kenosha County along the southwestern shoreline of Lake Michigan, Pleasant Prairie was home to 21,250 people at the 2020 census. The village is positioned directly south of the city of Kenosha and directly north of the Illinois border. Although located just 37 miles south of Milwaukee, it is share of the United States Census Bureau’s Chicago whole statistical area (CSA) and metropolitan statistical area despite visceral 57 miles north of that city. Among its notable features are the RecPlex and Chiwaukee Prairie.

The Pleasant Prairie area was the center of Native American activity in pre-pioneer Wisconsin. Some of the earliest traces of Native American excitement in Wisconsin have been found along State Highway 32 and State Highway 165, Barnes Creek, and in the Carol Beach area. These ahead of time Native American campsites were located along what was afterward the shoreline of Lake Michigan. Pleasant Prairie also proverb pioneers reach in Wisconsin upon the Jambeau Trail (now known as Green Bay Road). In addition, several natural historic sites such as the Chiwaukee Prairie and the Kenosha Sand Dunes lie undisturbed in Pleasant Prairie.

The area’s first white settler was Horace Woodbridge, who arrived upon June 4, 1833; Henry Miller arrived progressive that same month. Pleasant Prairie had its beginnings as a diplomatic entity in April 1842 in the same way as the first town meeting was held and the first election of town officials took place. The to the fore town officials met in the Williams Congregational Church located at 93rd Street and Green Bay Road. Later the obsolete church became the town hall. Pleasant Prairie originally was a town nearly 42 square miles (110 km²) in size.

Over the next 150 years, the city of Kenosha began to annex lands south of 60th Street and west from Lake Michigan. The town of Pleasant Prairie was slowly abbreviated in size as Kenosha grew. There were nine separate concurrence areas in the town that in some cases became the starting dwindling for significant growth. Some no longer exist.