Illinois court supervision and probation are different dispositions with very different long-term consequences. Supervision under 730 ILCS 5/5-6-3.1 is not a conviction. Successful completion means no DUI conviction enters the driving record, so no statutory license revocation follows. Probation under 730 ILCS 5/5-6-1 requires a guilty plea or verdict, which is a conviction, and DUI convictions carry mandatory Secretary of State revocation. Probation also allows or requires jail as a condition in aggravated cases. A Chicago DUI lawyer targets supervision whenever eligibility allows because the driving privileges, employment record, and insurance consequences of the two paths are not comparable.
