Editing Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin (section)

===Establishing independence===
Throughout much of its history, the town of Pleasant Prairie struggled to maintain its independence and identity apart from [[Kenosha]], its larger neighbor to the north.

In 1961, the village hall moved from the former Williams Congregational Church site to rented office space in a small commercial center located on 22nd Avenue and 91st Street.

In 1967,  the village government moved into a newly constructed municipal building on Springbrook Road and 39th Avenue that provided office, an auditorium, Fire Department apparatus room, and sleeping quarters.

In 1984, the town and the city of Kenosha agreed upon a plan for the orderly development and fixed boundaries for the town in exchange for an acknowledged right of property owners in various locations along the village/city border to be annexed into the city of Kenosha. A significant provision of this agreement gave Kenosha the ability to annex lands north of [[Wisconsin Highway 50|State Highway 50]] from Green Bay Road to [[Interstate 94|I-94]], where the Southport Plaza shopping center, WhiteCaps subdivision, River Crossing subdivision, and Aurora Hospital are located. In exchange, Pleasant Prairie was granted the ability to protect the rest of its area from annexations and to purchase sewer and water from Kenosha.