Ex-Daley aide finds a six-figure spot in Emanuel’s City Hall

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Updated: February 10, 2012 8:24AM

Mayor Rahm Emanuel has given Patrick J. Harney — a former go-to player for Mayor Richard M. Daley — a new six-figure job.

Harney, 53, is now second-in-command of the Chicago Department of Transportation — a job he began on New Year’s Day, after Emanuel merged the city’s Department of Fleet Management, which Harney had been overseeing for Daley, with the Department of General Services.

Harney is making $157,092 annually, the same amount he was paid as Daley’s fleet management commissioner.

In December 1998, Harney was forced out of his job as a CTA vice president after being charged with driving drunk in a CTA-owned car. He wasn’t convicted of the DUI charge and returned to city government in October 2000 as a deputy aviation commissioner.

In July 2007, Daley made him his first deputy chief of staff, overseeing how the city spent $2.2 billion in federal economic-stimulus funds. Daley named him the boss of fleet management in January 2011.

Chris Fusco and Tim Novak