This paper focuses on the properties and factorizations of the Chebyshev polynomials. We show that the Chebyshev polynomial sn(x) with the particular initial conditions s0(x) = 0, s1(x) = 1 has a simple factorization, and each factor in this factorization has a one-to-one correspondence with a factor of the integer n. More precisely, we define a family of polynomials Pk(x) with integer coefficients for each k = 1, 2, …, and show that they satisfy sn(x) = ∏d|n Pd(x) for all n = 1, 2, …. We also present some more results about the factorization properties and the irreducibility properties for the Chebyshev polynomials. Additionally, we establish a characterization for certain irreducible polynomials, including the Chebyshev polynomial vn(x) with the particular initial conditions v0(x) = 1, v1(x) = x - 1. We demonstrate that any nonconstant polynomial g(x) with integer coefficients that satisfies a specific identity, g(x)g(-x) = ±g(±(2-x2)), can be expressed as a product of irreducible polynomials Ψk(x), where Ψk is a polynomial such that ${\Psi}_k(x\,+\,{\frac{1}{x}})\,=\,x^{-{\frac{1}{2}}{\varphi}(k)}{\Phi}_k(x)$. (Here 𝚽k is the k-th cyclotomic polynomial and φ is Euler's totient function.)