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Chicopee is an incorporated city in Hampden County, Massachusetts, on the Connecticut River.

The city was settled in 1640 and incorporated as a town on April 29, 1848, after splitting from Springfield, and it received its city charter on April 18, 1890.

The 2020 census recorded a population of 55,560 in Chicopee, making it the second-largest city in western Massachusetts after Springfield.

The 2020 census counted 24,106 households in the city.

Chicopee covers 23.87 square miles in total, including 22.91 square miles of land.

The city grew around former mill villages on the Chicopee River, including Chicopee Center, once called Cabotville, Chicopee Falls, Willimansett, Fairview, and Aldenville.

Chicopee is nicknamed the Crossroads of New England and the Kielbasa Capital of the World, and its motto is Industriae Variae, meaning Varied Industries.

The Ames Manufacturing Company in Chicopee was the largest producer of swords and cutlasses for the Union Army during the Civil War and cast the equestrian statue of George Washington in Boston's Public Garden.

Chicopee was home to the first producer of friction matches in the United States, the Fisk Rubber Company, and early A. G. Spalding sporting goods factories, and the Duryea, the first gasoline-powered automobile made in the United States, was built there.

Westover Air Reserve Base, the largest Air Force Reserve base in the United States, is in Chicopee and was created in 1939 and 1940.