[citation needed] In 1970, the club provided security for the Kickapoo Creek Rock Festival, held on Memorial Day weekend in 1970 near Heyworth, Illinois.

The cut also features a triangular front patch depicting a scythe over the club's initials, with one letter of the MC's motto, "FTW", in each corner of the triangle.

[2] The Grim Reapers are allied with the Outlaws and have alleged ties to the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) and state militia groups.

[7] The Grim Reapers formed a chapter in Warrick County, Indiana in the mid-1970s, which eventually established a clubhouse in a former antiques shop on State Street in Newburgh.

Due to restrictions on the building's occupancy put in place by local authorities, the club moved its headquarters to a riverfront premises in downtown Newburgh.

A small amount of marijuana, 187 cans of beer and several weapons were confiscated, and fifteen Grim Reapers members were arrested, although charges were ultimately dropped against all but two of the bikers.

The Evansville Grim Reapers chapter continued to operate from this property until September 2017, when it relocated to the former Exotic She Lounge on East Diamond Avenue.

[1] On August 21, 1983, Grim Reapers member Stephen Earl Thomasson was stabbed to death in a fight behind the Red Garter Tavern in Evansville after he had shot a man in the foot.